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“Togetherness”.

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by Richard LeDue.

 

Stepping out of the summer sun
into an air-conditioned liquor store-
the coolness sharper
than the cheap whisky I usually bought
(they were sold out of it),
only to be the last one to realize
my shoelace was untied,
and as I talked to myself,
reading over wine prices and countries
of origins, the cashier and her friend,
who had been chatting,
went quiet,
making the jingle of the beer
I settled on
accentuate the awkward silence
they made me feel like I belonged
in without even needing to ask.

Ashland, One Spring Day.

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by Barry Vitcov. I remember when there was a blue sky hovering, cloudless, over North Mountain Park. A backdrop for walking alone by mixed-age groups playing soccer so certain in who they were and what they were doing. I’m thinking there must be more than soccer, much more than feints, foot dribbling, and heading … […]

The Foolish Frogs.

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by Matias Travieso-Diaz.      Deeming this king unworthy of them, [the frogs] sent messengers to Zeus, asking him to change their king, because the first one was too lazy. Zeus was irritated by this, so he sent them a snake as king, by whom they were all snatched up and eaten. Aesop, Fable 44 Once […]

excerpt from “ChatEntropy.”

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by T.C. Eisele. The homepage of ChatEntropy is surprisingly non-descript. All that’s there is the word “ChatEntropy” in a large, stylized font and “Enter” in a smaller typeface underneath. When he clicks “Enter,” Marsh is presented with a pop-up box that asks him to type in a username. After he types in the nickname “Seraph” […]

In the Name of the Prophets.

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by Yahia Lababidi.  I was a teenager in Cairo, Egypt, when a family friend paused mid-conversation, studying me with a curious smile. “You,” he said, half teasing, “are like a Jewish intellectual.” It wasn’t a provocation, though it might have sounded like one in certain company in a Muslim-majority country. I received it as praise. […]

Monkey’s Fingers.

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by Jim Meirose. Mote in the eye. Rheumy said take this box to Monkey, and handed over directions on a blue lined sheet. So, Harold went. Handling his car expertly, he sped along, glancing down for the next line of the directions. Garden State Parkway to exit ninety-eight. The blacktop rolled under. Signs came up […]

The Self-Serving Giraffe.

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by Matias Travieso-Diaz. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to  live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde   Grumpff was a Somali giraffe male (Giraffa reticulata) in a herd that inhabited a dry savannah in northern Kenya. He was eighteen feet tall and two tons heavy, by […]

Important and Mundane.

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by David D. Horowitz. “And Mickey Mays bashes a walk-off grand slam to win the World Series! Just listen to fans clamor for their dream player, Mickey Mays!” “This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature is being awarded to Mickey Mays!” “FAME Magazine announces this year’s Most Handsome Man… Mickey Mays!” “And today film star Mickey […]

Tinnitus.

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by Edward Johnson.   A buzzing has ensued, a harbinger, a glitchy modem, the air thickened by gossip. The drydock is encrusted in bivalves so of course there are those among us who suspect we’re being listened to. A skiff riffles into the silvery suture where sea meets sky. The data-mining mollusks quiver – desalinated, […]

Escaping the Dream.

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by Cliff Beck.   We live the dream in a land where things are not what they seem; where the here and now is discarded for a sacred cow; a future sold in a sequence of seductive social memes which the panopticon uses to accuse, judge and abuse if we can’t afford it, or try […]