Fiction
… bladder stones once and didn’t give a sign of discomfort. Ever since Maud found out that the “police-bows” … her we could try some other eating place.” Isabella steadied herself against the glass-fronted china cabinet, which … a ferret-like little man, for Joplin, Missouri, and points beyond. She wrote home, but no one answered her …
Poetry
… box of ashes, its odd white weight, the brick of a life compacted there as if it gripped the man inside it. Unsteady …
Criticism
… new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion, $26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen … to Energy” bulletin board system, and now archived on a website dedicated to his work . This essay is undated, with …
Poetry
… moon uprising in the east. Goodbye to the going forth, and coming home. Goodbye to the going forth, and holding on, and … The dragonfly lives its life without a single error, it also waits for our praise. The pale-green moths are pressing … they are dying to get in to press their papery bodies into the light. This is the world. 8 Listen, I don’t …
Fiction
… as though stitched together from pelts of smaller animals. Bill had been certain it was menacing them, stalking … building that could have been in Paris except for the soldiers standing guard in ill-fitting green uniforms. Even the … he ordered shrimp cocktail and then refused to eat it. As a compromise, Bill and Lyla spent the first week of their …
Fiction
… to her, I can see. I’m checking the digital code which has come up UNAVAILABLE. Sometimes it reads NO DATA GIVEN which … receiver, and speaking with the broad A’s of a Canadian! Also he’s making me nervous so I am not thinking as clearly … It was after Pitman’s partner and close friend Reed Loomis died, Pitman began to drink mornings. This was early in …