Archive for May, 2009

by Jessica Bodford
The cell was cold.
It was always so, but as she stared out from behind her long bangs she wondered whether it was the darkness that seemed to bring with it yet another surge of icy misery. With a shudder, she buried her face farther beyond her crossed arms until she felt her knees. »

by Michael Meyerhofer

Actually, it’s farting cows that’ll kill us,
claims an ecology professor at the party
passing around joints and Heineken.
Think of all those cattle ranches out there,
two billion cows planted hoof-deep,
blossoming into T-bones and burgers,
those leftover tons of methane flop
enough to trump the smog from cities,
great human herds of cars and planes.
Mark my words, he promises. »

by Reuben Hayslett
Markus sits on the edge of my bed on night in January. His bulky arms stretch down to his pale work-rough hands, resting on his knees. I’m sitting next to him. He stares down at his shoes.
Markus says, “I’ve never had sex with a guy before. I want to, with you, so bad.. »

Fiction by Julia Phillips

The old man’s dog kept barking. I called to Alex and we swam to each other and kissed, our mouths tasting like lake water. The dog swam over too and circled us… “Anya?” I called. She shouted, “This is the first really crazy thing I have ever done!”. »

Emma Komlos-Hrobsky

Zoe Banks wasn’t particularly surprised when her mother, Adelaide, casually mentioned at the end of August that Zoe had both applied and been accepted to. »

Icarus

My father once told me
he knew how to ride a unicycle.

I can’t imagine him balancing
on one wheel—a clown
riding down the. »