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  • Talking On the Wall Ami Sands Brodoff
  • The Cat Translated by Peter McCambridge
    Author: Eric Dupont ("Bestiaire", published by Marchand de feuilles, 2008)
  • When Eyes Yellow Gregory Koop
  • Alex Willow Partington
  • The Window by the Train Isabelle Schumacher
  • The Comeback Translated by Susan Lemprière
    Author: Sébastien Roldan ["La remontée", Winner of the 2009 Short Story Contest held by XYZ. La revue de la nouvelle, published in issue no. 99 (fall 2009).]

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poetry

The Beach

Joshua Levy

From here it’s so simple:
seagulls are kites tugged by mermaids [Read more...]

Re: Report to the Council, cc The Huffer Foundation et al.

David McGimpsey

At last year’s prestigious Ho-Lit awards
I won the coveted Layton Medallion
(rhymes with ‘Canadian stallion’), now nestled
in my chest hair as I winter in Crete.
[Read more...]

These Walls

Mark McGuire-Schwartz

Back to a beginning, these walls and I.
Not the first beginning for me,
and surely not for these walls, but we go back.
We know each other’s secrets.
Having seen each other scraped down,
And my father, how he worked, [Read more...]

Traces

Autumn Richardson

In the white world
lives are depressions in a surface crust
scents pressed into the river’s pelt. [Read more...]

Blowers blow the leaf cash around

Ryan Ruddick

May patrollers season the spring leaf
by finding a Public 31
illegal [Read more...]

AND OUR DEAD ARE LINED UP ALL THE WAY INTO THE FUTURE

K.V. Skene

I’ve decided
to waste my life again
like I used to [Read more...]

Five things you didn’t know about water

Serene Vannoy

The surface tension in a drop of water is enough
to hold a world in,
if the world is small enough

A cubic meter of salt water contains five hundred million tears
and tears are what you are made of — salt and water and pain and relief
[Read more...]

The Multitude

Translated by Siobhan Marie Anderson
Author: Emile Verhaeren (Excerpt "La Foule" from "Les visages de la vie", Edmond Deman, 1899)

In these cities of shadow and ebony,
Where prodigal lights shine forth,
In these cities, which thrash about,
With their tears, their ruts and their blasphemy,
[Read more...]