'Life on Mars (Detail)' by Tray Drumhann
ISSUE 197
2010-02-03
Rot
Adam Rothstein
"I held it up and I heard the wind blow in the wire, heard my dime fall into the pit and sure as click and a whir, I could talk."

The Miscarriage of the Crone
Quinten Collier
"I was damp and cymbals were chattering between my thighs. / Jazz lights said undulate so I did."

The Shower
Nathan Scott
--Nathan Scott investigates memory and generation via the pinata.
when grandpa calls, tell that sad sad man i'm out bowling
Joseph Goosey
"When we are eliminated / at the hands of deer hooves and motor pistons, there will arrive a clarity / so alarming that your spine will curl up"

Sisyphus of Anacostia
Drew Jackson
--Hopes and dreams, a big ass, and the sad truth about inertia.

Not Even Jail
Sean Jackson
"It was humblin to hear just how hardscrabble a life I’d lived to that point. One long run a bad luck."
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