'Masquerade' by Michael Paige Glover
ISSUE 166
2008-05-11
The End of Algebra
Jimmy Chen
The area between his buttocks became slippery.

2 Poems
Rusty Barnes
You shook so badly you couldn't press / the button on the microwave and your whole life / dribbled out of you in sobs like you'd pissed / down my leg ...

Dandelion Hill
Dan Korgan
“First your perpetual motion machine and now this.”

2 Poems
Jesse Dunstan
I carry myself like I was carrying something really heavy

Moved to Florida
Tim Dicks
Her neck something strange carved of white chocolate. Kill to taste it but at the same time too weird.
The President's Daughter
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
They gave me Tylenol as a kid / and I died...

A Failed Story About My Father
Thomas Kearnes
...I crave tuna salad.

Natural History
Josh Wallaert
sometimes catch hogs

February the Kidnapper
Shane Jones
The children dreamed the same dream the war effort in town dreamed of: flocks of birds tearing through a new blue sky and a calendar void of February.

In the Rain and Mud
Sam Virzi
...a razor as big as the world, with anger and gasoline fueling its heart.
TJ PRESS