“The Goddess of Memory” By: Amanda Pauley
Her shoes brush the smooth floors day and night. She sits out a few, but is always present, whirling between partners. The short blue satin dress with the low n...
Her shoes brush the smooth floors day and night. She sits out a few, but is always present, whirling between partners. The short blue satin dress with the low n...
“Two Gloves” Cheryl starts her homeless career, hikes onto the freeway onramp. This is the spiritual center of L.A., she says aloud, to no one. One ...
Darkness comes through the decaying wooden slats of the pen you forced me into last night. It’s time to wake up. Long before I hear your boots plodding along th...
Three days and most of three nights you tried to load your address book, to send a simple email to yourself, to put a familiar icon on your virtual desktop. You...
On the final stretch of her eight mile run Morgan became fixated on the last slice of pumpkin praline cake leftover from Thanksgiving—a significant wedge lying ...
After school watching American Bandstand with my two best friends, all three of us lusting after Bunny Gibson who’s all of sixteen, stacked, and very fucking ho...
Thursday was out to get me, the swine of this city angry for my skin and bone. They knew I was a disaster waiting to happen. They knew I was apocalyptic, moroni...
queer [kwir] adjective 1. strange; odd. synonyms: odd, strange, unusual, funny, peculiar, curious, bizarre, weird, uncanny, freakish, eerie, unnatural. Issue 2 ...
Alex and I could buy salmon instead of the tuna fish that sustains us, but right now we wear poverty as a cover for the middle class suburbanism that bored us, ...
We were trucking down life’s highway when we collided, our fenders melding together. We waited ages for a tow truck that betrayed us, delivering our compromised...