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Contributors 79

Delisa Mulkey: The Hitchhiker

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

My first one had a dog with him. I was 16 and he caught me staring at the naked girl tattooed on his arm: he laughed rough, like whiskers, and full of phlegm. He smelled like a dog in summer looking for meat, ready to mate. He said something cool like It’s hotter’n a gator’s […]

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Rocco Lungarellio: Everything is Roundness

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

morning A woman’s advice is an oval earring- a round Larimar stone named after the sea. It is a balled- up crumpled napkin of wrinkles on your mother’s face as she hands you two white aspirin for a fever. afternoon Any walk back from the places you go with your father when there aren’t many […]

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Veronica Castrillón: Minding the Sounds

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

I’ve watched the mouth have known it to swell with blood lust I’ve heard hands make unspeakable sounds when they crashed on the surface of another or myself it seemed we loved winter made frost of mercy(look at us ( then there were vows we laid bare to remember only the body kept its word […]

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