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Issue 91: Humor


From “Emoji-nation” by Nastya Żerebecki 

Fiction

Sean Carney: Super Man

John Estes: Density & Awrack and Awry

B.G. Firmani: How I Married Phillip Glass

Nathan Leslie: It Can’t Hurt, Can It?

Cameron Stewart: Mr. May or: Waiting For Love in A Chain Restaurant

Poetry

Terry Adams: Ant Asks Where

Tyler Antoine: Dick Poem

Cory Andrews: Rejection Letter Re:

Lisa Andrews: Some Things My Parents Said

Holly Teresa Baker: To an Ecologist

Jacob A. Bennett: The Pugilist

Mel Bentley: Tonight We Are Delighted

Nellie Bridge: Placing an Order

Charles Carr: I am being stalked

A.D. Carswell: The King and I

Michael Derrick Hudson writing as Yin-Fen Chou: Walking Home from the Redwood Inn and Making Excuses For Still Living in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Grant Clauser: At the Occult Flea Marker and Used Book Emporium

Jim Cory: Excerpts from 777

Kevin Dobbs: Desert Zombies of Doha

Colin Dodds: The Labyrinth in the Third Dimension

Valerie Fox: Two Important Questions About Pornography

Clyde K.L. Elsie: Ode to Jocelyn, Flight Attendant on United #4774 from LGA-CLE by Passenger 14C

J. Oscar Franzen: Did You Hear About Some Woman With an Ear Growing in Her Arm?

Leonard Gontarek: From Mr. Ippolito, I Didn’t Complete This Week’s Poetry Assignment, But I Did Write This & Philadelphia & Two Poems on Flying & Virgin Crying in My Dream

Ben Gunsberg: Forgiving Indianapolis

Lynn Marie Houston: The View Up Davey’s Shorts When I was Fourteen

Brett Elizabeth Jenkins: Recycle, Reduce, Reuse (And Close the Loop)

Meg Johnson: First Born & My Hermit Tendencies

Diana Keren Lee: Half a Sonnet

Jennifer L. Knox: The Bubble that You at the End of Your Life

Aaron Krol: The Zoo Has Been Closed to the Public & What I Am Is a Piss-Poor Novelist

Lori Lamothe: Virtual Botticelli & Armageddon Saloon

Lynn Levin: Song of the Maenads

O. V. Oveson: Ode to Dave Dahl

Don Riggs:Jupiter Transits My Anus & The Files of Mid-Autumn

Linwood Rumney: The Uncertainty Principle

Amy Saul-Zerby: SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER NOTHING IS WHAT YOU THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE BUT THAT IS OKAY & You Should Probably Quit Your Job

Peter Schireson: Love Poem

Lauren Schmidt: The Box Marked ‘F’

Ali Shapiro: Hook

Christina Shideler: Stick a Fork in Me & Dat Ass tho

Charlotte Simmonds: Here at the Miniature Zoo

Navid Sinaki: In My Mother’s Full Veil

Laura Spagnoli: Celebrity Dream

Scott T. Starbuck: Haiku at 70

Nicole Steinberg: Squick & Talking to Girls About the Good Ol’ Number Two Taboo

Linda Sultanoff: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

John J. Trause: Regret

Andrew James Weatherhead: Poem for my Neighbor’s Bird, Which I Took Care of For 10 days While They Were in Turkey

Patrick Whitfill: Curiosity (VI)

Veronica Zabczynski: Marriage

Prose

Jeff Friedman: Photo ID

Matt Izzi: Valore

Brenda Nicholas: Bratz Dolls Ask Brunette, Roxxi Bratz, to Write Response Letter to Critics Who Say the Dolls “Encourage girls to think about themselves as sexualized objects.”

Jenny Rossi: Burnt Heart

Fred Siegel: In the Moment

Contributors

Terry Adams

Tyler Antoine

Cory Andrews

Lisa Andrews

Holly Teresa Baker

Jacob A. Bennett

Mel Bentley

Nellie Bridge

Sean Carney

Charles Carr

A. D. Carswell

Micheal Derrick Hudson As Yin-Fen Chou

Grant Clauser

Jim Cory

Colin Dodds

Kevin Dobbs

B. G. Firmani

Valerie Fox

Jeff Friedman

Clyde K. L. Elsie

John Estes

J. Oscar Franzen

Leonard Gontarek

Ben Gunsberg

Lynn Marie Houston

Matt Izzi

Brett Elizabeth Jenkins

Meg Johnson

Diana Keren Lee

Nathan Leslie

Jennifer L. Knox

Aaron Krol

Lori Lamothe

Lynn Levin

Brenda Nicholas

O. V. Oveson

Don Riggs

Jenny Rossi

Linwood Rumney

Amy Saul-Zerby

Peter Schireson

Lauren Schmidt

Ali Shapiro

Christina Shideler

Charlotte Simmonds

Navid Sinaki

Laura Spagnoli

Scott T. Starbuck

Nicole Steinberg

Cameron Stewart

Linda Sultanof

John J. Trause

Andrew James Weatherhead

Patrick Whitfill

Veronica Zabczynski

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