EAP: The Magazine Archive

by Debbie Naples.

 

rats on a roasting bin
ticks on the potato
beetles crawling deep within
the dying dread tomato

kettles chewing sheets of air
tea on broken plates
tiny nymph flies everywhere
sticking to the tape

mice run through the garden
chewing bits of rope
then they climb the kitchen stair
and start in on the soap

lamps are lighting up themselves
shining leaves with shining elves
looking like the grocery shelves
from other worlds and other selves

maggots forming long patrols
that march along the dead
bloated liquid flesh unfurled
but still they must be fed

by Robin Suzanne. Way back in my murky past, lurks a brief chapter from an impulsive life. It occurred in a very, very small town. The highway running through it only acknowledges its existence by slowing to forty-five miles per hour for the distance of not quite half a mile. There is one main crossroad […]

by Robert Markland Smith. Nobody really knew why nor how, but this is what happened.There was no election or change of the guard. There was no revolutionary leader influencing others to lay down their weapons. But here and there across the world, like an epidemic, like lightning shining from East to West, one government after […]

by Clarinda Harriss. Spray Besides Jermaine of the housekeeping staff and the desk clerks who always wish her a blessed day, the only person who spoke to Candyce at the famous university’s rec center during the whole first year of her membership is a skinny, aggressively meditative type. He is a man who works out […]

by Tim Myers. It was the “Odditorium” that made him halt abruptly in the middle of one of their famous entertainment boulevards, with the rising inside him of a sorrow he could no longer ignore or explain away. He worked the pun out easily, taking quiet pride in the professional application of his Institute skills—only […]

by David D. Horowitz. I often have been told: “People don’t remember particulars they learned at school, but rather they can learn how to think.” Well, I remember some particulars, too. I recall University of Washington Professor William Dunlop telling us students in his English 274, “Introduction to Verse Writing,” about the importance of imagery […]

by Ed Taylor. Wait now, let’s get this straight. Only at night he comes, to, he says, “perform a husband’s duty”; demands that the lights stay off, slinks away at sunrise, and doesn’t even say his name? He tells you he’s got a palace the size of a county, but what he does for a […]

by Ellen Morris Prewitt. Up the river bank from Mother Mary, two groups confabulated over a banner strung at the base of the Memphis Pyramid. The banner proclaimed “Site of Our Renaissance.” A beefy white guy hugged one of the poles holding the banner and shook it. He was trying to dislodge a guy who’d […]