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Contributors 92

Keverlee Burchett: Goodwill Inventory

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

This time when you come you’re not a thing lost, not broken or recently fixed—   you don’t break or fix me. Now you’re harmless.   Now, you’re a glove-boxed ice scraper in south Georgia,   a post hole digger, birdseed scattered   to a city of squirrels. Now, when you appear out of nowhere […]

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Shevaun Brannigan: When the World Ends

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

there won’t be newspapers with letters to the editor objecting to how the city council handled the crisis. No TVs to turn on. The hand-cranked radios too hot to handle, but then we won’t have hands. No psychologists to diagnose Post-Traumatic Death Disorder, no couches to lie back on as a glistening orb of light. […]

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Lisa Andrews: Mother Love Song

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

Watch me, I am the living snake that sheds its skin. Watch this emerald sheath turn to grass. I go on forever. I am the green flash, quick as summer lightening. I am that fast. I am the cobra. Kiss me and your village will be saved. I am the boa constrictor that hangs in […]

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Zaccaria Fulton: Dramaticule

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

[ Mother lies in bed, center stage, under a spotlight.]   Director [to twelve-year-old son]: Remember, you’ve been brought in here by your elementary school Guidance Counselor. This woman is also a friend of your mother’s, and she wants you to tell your mother that it’s okay to let go. Your mother’s body is wracked […]

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