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4/19/2013

4/19/2013 by James Tadd Adcox [The following is an attempt to make something out of a pre-narrative moment. The words come from news programs, radio broadcasts, online stories, tweets and text messages intercepted on April 19, 2013, between the hours … Continue reading

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Danica Patrick Can Do Whatever She Wants With Her Body

Danica Patrick Can Do Whatever She Wants With Her Body by Kirsten Clodfelter Even if, like me, watching auto racing isn’t one of your top five (or top one hundred) favorite ways to spend a weekend, you’re probably at least … Continue reading

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The Doors You Mark Are Your Own

[The following is an excerpt from the novel-in-progess by the same title. It originally appeared in Surreal South 2009.] *** The Doors You Mark Are Your Own by Aleksandr Tuvim (translated by Raul Clement and Okla Elliott) April 12 Katya … Continue reading

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Gunbroke

Gunbroke by Seth Abramson South is adventure, north cold but also shelter, and in the west an end. It is south then north then west, the trail. East is finished. To tell it right it must be half in green … Continue reading

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Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan by Michael T. Young   A gun came to school and taught the children how to think. It blew their minds and tested them on how to take a last breath. It sent home lessons to parents on … Continue reading

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Electromagnetic Compatibility

Electromagnetic Compatibility by Kelly Davio I am the conduit of all transmission. The basebands of noise radiate from my skull. I hear the faint buzz when I bend a knee all the way to one hundred and eight megahertz. My … Continue reading

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Medusa Song

Medusa Song  by Mary Akers She scrambles the eggs while the baby howls at her knees. To drown out the racket, she hums as she jabs her fork into the yolks. She enjoys the way they spill their yellow color … Continue reading

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Open-Air Cinema in Heliopolis

Open-Air Cinema in Heliopolis by Hedy Habra You used to say, mother: “Let me see your face when lit by a crescent moon: every day of the month will smile the way you do.” We saw double-feature movies in open-air … Continue reading

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Ten-Year Stare

Ten-Year Stare by Steve Mitchell It was a look I seen and I seen it true. Then I forgot it til I seen it again then I remembered it. All of it. Every minute in the between and that one … Continue reading

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Corn, Alfred D., Jr. 34833361 T44 450

Corn, Alfred D., Jr. 34833361 T44 450 by Alfred Corn Try and muster the first unshaven dogface to call them “dog tags,” sardonic smile aimed at a pair of steel and nickel leaves die-stamped with his name, a license to … Continue reading

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