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Spring 2023: Recipes for Disaster.

Secrets.

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by Yahia Lababidi.

Can we ever write about matters
that we cannot speak of
the thing or two that determine
who we are and what we do

When can we hint at the harm
we’ve hardly survived
the realization that our allure
is due to deformity

Sure, we confess in code
here, there and everywhere
beneath our breaths
and over their heads

But when can we ever speak,
plainly, of our obscene pain
to whom and how might we
unburden ourselves, artlessly

The answer might be never
whispers art, to which we owe all
—our masks, wisdom and lives—
only transformation will set us free.

Moving Life’s Goalposts: From Living Well to Living Forever.

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by Brian Griffith. According to one version of my family’s mythology, my grandmother believed she was inevitably bound for hell. She was an Irish Catholic girl who ran off and married a Protestant, and she believed this was a mortal sin. She also believed that divorce was a mortal sin, so that left her no […]

Excerpt from “Dog on Fire”.

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by Terese Svoboda. There’s no other depression around like the meteor’s for a hundred miles. Of course you never see any of the actual meteor, what you see is a small crater with meteor rocks all around it, rocks that drive a compass wild. The meteor itself, all dust or pebbles from its splash that […]

Monaghan’s Virtual Bar in the Time of Covid-19.

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by Tom Ball.   March 2020 I said to my lover, Jane, “I will write a novel of our times. I had written a number of sci-fi of flash fiction books, short story books and a few novels and now I am going to write my best novel in the mainstream.” And I said to […]

Distracted: A Short Play.

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by T.C. Eisele.   Characters Man at Computer Young Woman Young Man Woman’s Voice     Setting The living room/kitchen area of a one-bedroom apartment in New York City.  The kitchen is stage left. Stage right there is a couch and coffee table.  A little left of center stage (closer to the kitchen area) is […]

The Penultimate City (excerpted from “Boundless as the Sky”).

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by Dawn Raffel. Everything living and dead, solid and conjured, fruitful and not, has been wired together within and without this spectacular city in a feat of automation. Socket and plug. Tunnel and lock. Wine-dark sea and crenellated tower. Spray, wave, salt, root. Sailor, baker, mother, lover. Resin and sparkle. The apple and the hand […]

The Worst Disaster.

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by Bruce E. R. Thompson. What is the worst disaster that can befall a person? Plato gives the answer to that question. I have never heard a better answer, and, following the logic by which he reaches that answer, I believe he is unequivocally right. It isn’t a matter of opinion. His answer applies to […]

ETSS Approval Process.

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by Jim Meirose. …the river relaxes this what this how yes it’s how the river relaxes the river the river river river relaxes the river relaxes relaxes the river relaxes the river relaxes down into into to ETSS support is a corporate imperative in the following areas; To pratfall the Manksie Augmentation of Beanertop support. […]

Add a Pinch of Pepper.

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by David D. Horowitz.   “But Uncle Jim can’t eat anything with nuts in…” “But I spent lots of dough and a full hour mixing and baking, and now…” “He’s extremely allergic to nuts: walnuts, almonds, peanuts, whatever. Some people with that allergy could die from ingesting them.” “It’s a great chocolate chip walnut cookie […]

if you’d rather watch.

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by Chris Farago. There is a bear in my house now, rummaging through cabinets in search of a snack. Good luck to you, I say— it’s all dehydrated protein powder and years-old jerky— I doubt there’s anything there you could make a meal out of. Do I feel sorry for the bear? I do, in […]