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nonfiction

Sounds of Silence

Nanette Rayman Rivera

Selected by Dzanc Books for their Best of the Web 2010 anthology.

Hello darkness my old friend,
I’ve come to talk to you again
– Simon and Garfunkel

I watch him smiling to himself as we eat our first married meal together. McDonald’s. He has some light in his eyes now, his hair is combed back into his ponytail, and when he looks at me, his face turns a pale shade of pink. I love that in a man. [Read more...]

fiction

Loved, Stupid

William Robinson

Annie claims the tires were Dunlop, D60A2, all-season. In bed together, I tilt my head like a chocolate lab, dazed and confused. “Don’t give me that, Bruce,” she says. “Bill and I know it was you.” My father caught my mother having an affair in their seventeenth year. He waited outside the boyfriend’s house and [Read more...]

poetry

Post-Donald

Kenneth Pobo

After we broke up, Donald met a reporter
he married in Madrid, had three kids. For years
I’d get Christmas cards, “Hope you had a great year
and were in many plays, Donald.” I did some plays,
won no Tony’s, had a good face. Remember [Read more...]

poetry

Noiembre

D. E. Steward

The sense of a doom-laden plaidoyer is inevitable

The Vulcans

Star Trek good-and-evil policy making

Bush’s pig-in-shit smirk

“Middle East politics are like those of the ancient world—Greek or Roman could understand them better than an American” [Read more...]