Features
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Slaying The Zimbabwe Dream
Like other tyrants, Mugabe creates threats to detract from the real problems, and if you don't agree, you're pulp on toast. Former White House correspondent, Alex Keto reports. 
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Interview and Reviews
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By a Slow River
"Any place that collides with the carnage of war cannot escape defilement. War permeates the novel, but ... the field of battle is the quiet locale of ordinary lives." Margot reviews Claudel's latest. |
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Longing for Mayberry Days
"Because the situation in Iraq springs out of a consumer culture, I'll call it the first consumer war supported by a willfully stupid ignorance of the facts." Don T evolves from traffic tickets to Dick Cheney. Ya gotta love him. |
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The City is a Rising Tide
"When we first meet Justine, she opens her narrative by describing the odd taste of indigenous eel cherished by her love and boss, the aloof and unsympathetic, Peter." Daniel reviews this debut novel by Rebecca Lee. |
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Death to The Illuminati!
"Through alchemical sleight-of-hand drawn from the sublime well of arcane esoterica and held fast by a bent coat-hanger wedged in the doors of perception, the DnDers have managed to curve time and space to render truly startling and counter-intuitive outcomes." Norman Ball loves conspiracies. |
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Head Loss by Bob Butler
"The journey that begins with a caveman's beheading by a saber-toothed tiger weaves into sixty other consciousnesses before ending with the author, Robert Olen Butler. The last monologue is of Butler himself being decapitated, "on the job", in 2008." Thank you, S.B. Sheikh |
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Bring Down The Power?
Michael Gaynor leaves us with a final word on the politics of race and rape. Would Nifong have concealed exculpatory DNA evidence and lied to both the court and defense counsel if he was not playing the race card and banking on a black bloc vote to elect him?
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Squirt-and-Seep From Che
Gronk the new American Symbolism. "Though redolent of a naked lunch, secret language permeates as in the verse of Jean Genet, whose personal elusive symbolism befuddles the experts even today." A review of Che's new collection, Death Poems, by Mark Spritzer. |
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Love Letter to The Old Ebbitt
"The most memorable altercation was more cat fight than bar brawl. Two women in their late 20s discovered that they were dating the same guy and attacked each other instead of him." Leslie Carbone drinks down memory lane. |
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Quictions
Bush At War #17
by Mark Doten
The truth was his parents were crushing him and it was a good thing he’d been transferred, it was be transferred or he’d be destroyed. Nevertheless, he worried about socks ...
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Quictions
Insult to Injury
by Ann Garvin
Speaking of asses, hers felt mighty drafty. Where was Doctor Dugan? And why did he think putting fuzzy socks on stirrups made for a comfy waiting-experience?
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The Blue Woman
by Tammy Wilson
She showed up at the store one day with some hedge clippers, cutting the legs off a rack of men's pants, snipping ties and hacking the arm off a male mannequin before the police arrived ...
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Communion (and poem)
by Chad Prevost
She steers with her thighs the wheel of your white Skylark, rolling jays of exotic weed from dealers she never lets you meet. The hiss-and-pop audio of Grateful Dead bootlegs reel into your dreams ...
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Just Another
by Krysta Scharlach
There's a girl that he sees sometimes, and he has a whole relationship with her in his head. She's different than the others, she smiles with a sweetness that melts his stutter away.
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Neanderthal (and more)
by MaryCarroll-Hackett
His insistence confirmed her belief that Neanderthals had not, in fact, vanished, but bred, bowed bone to long femur, coarse into fine, into any number of their taller sisters, homo sapienettes ...
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Canned Corn
by Karin Becker
Her blue eyes looked directly at the camera and she tilted her head to one side, showing off the mole by her mouth ...
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