ISSUE 184
2009-02-23
Familiar with Disease
Spencer Dew
She wraps her legs around me and we fade out, off the face of it, like there’s no world or anyway we have no part in it. Hours must pass, then the radiators rattle us back. She keeps bulk boxes of sour fruit chews and spare serotonin reuptake inhibitors for coming back down...
Sing Bird
Joel Van Noord
He turned and turned again and everything in suburbia ends in a little circle.
you must be this tall to vomit
D.C. Porder
you puked magical pills / and belched alien ray-guns / and spit out diagrams / of flying time machines.
Irreality
Kevin Sweeney
A Cape Cod whose front windows are like the reels of a slot machine...
Ancient Music II
Dave Demske
Gurls defurring and loins astirring / and springeth the wode nu. / Sing hot damn!
Spencer Dew
She wraps her legs around me and we fade out, off the face of it, like there’s no world or anyway we have no part in it. Hours must pass, then the radiators rattle us back. She keeps bulk boxes of sour fruit chews and spare serotonin reuptake inhibitors for coming back down...
Sing Bird
Joel Van Noord
He turned and turned again and everything in suburbia ends in a little circle.
you must be this tall to vomit
D.C. Porder
you puked magical pills / and belched alien ray-guns / and spit out diagrams / of flying time machines.
Irreality
Kevin Sweeney
A Cape Cod whose front windows are like the reels of a slot machine...
Ancient Music II
Dave Demske
Gurls defurring and loins astirring / and springeth the wode nu. / Sing hot damn!
Best Guy Friend
Randy Dalzell
She screamed so much.
The Strangers
JC Miller
Olivia is on the floor playing with her toys. There’s a stain to her left from several weeks ago when Elizabeth sliced me with a box cutter.
Prophet Totem
Robert Bohm
while he’s convulsing on the floor you’ll get lucky and he’ll accidentally / stick his finger in an electrical socket...
Family Plan
RC Miller
I hope I am your wiped feet. / Like you, I am small, quiet, and hilarious.
Uncle Jeff
CL Bledsoe
I’ve witnessed this scenario with failed faculty romances before. The awkward avoidances, the snarky emails; I’ll be that guy begging her to take me back in the middle of the faculty room while everyone else eats their Ramen noodles and pretends to grade quizzes.
Randy Dalzell
She screamed so much.
The Strangers
JC Miller
Olivia is on the floor playing with her toys. There’s a stain to her left from several weeks ago when Elizabeth sliced me with a box cutter.
Prophet Totem
Robert Bohm
while he’s convulsing on the floor you’ll get lucky and he’ll accidentally / stick his finger in an electrical socket...
Family Plan
RC Miller
I hope I am your wiped feet. / Like you, I am small, quiet, and hilarious.
Uncle Jeff
CL Bledsoe
I’ve witnessed this scenario with failed faculty romances before. The awkward avoidances, the snarky emails; I’ll be that guy begging her to take me back in the middle of the faculty room while everyone else eats their Ramen noodles and pretends to grade quizzes.
