Red Threads
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What remains is only what’s inside the heart: alive, awake, forgiven. Now we have ground zero, its two blue lights signaling a darkened sky. Please tell the pilot it’s safe to land now, Mother,...
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MANNA FROM HEAVEN
XIII.
To be honest I had no clue what the kid was getting at but at least I was dealing with a fellow American here, mano a manoas Hemingway would say. So what did I do that got me fired?...
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UNDERGROUND
XXI.
The Captain fumbled for his wallet and fished out two business cards. One was relatively simple bearing just his title, Captain Paul Vorhees, and a phone number and email address in a clean black...
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MANNA FROM HEAVEN
I.
I met Alistair Blackwell in person for the first time at a party in Galveston, Texas. I’d been out of work for more months than I can remember, which compelled me to pick up again an...
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MINARETS
I.
A few hundred meters from the site Misha sends the text. His eyes are clear and rapt. I loop my hair in a ponytail and tuck it beneath my hat. At the center of the bridge we grab the crates and hurry from the side...
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NAME NO ONE MAN
But do you want to go the way of your affliction,
which is the way to yourself?
—Nietzsche
UNDERGROUND
I.
MY LOVE IS not impartial, so don’t ask...
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Tony Matthis was sat inside an otherwise empty conference room at his place of employment; a warm and eerie venue from which to launch this first time call. Outside the window the weather was raging, with severe winds coming in off the...
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NAME NO ONE MAN
But do you want to go the way of your affliction,
which is the way to yourself?
—Nietzsche
UNDERGROUND
I.
MY LOVE IS not impartial, so don’t ask...
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You begin to realize that the business of literature is the business of making culture, not just the business of manufacturing a bound book. - Richard Nash
This then, this site and these words, this request for your time and energy is...
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Post your zines, your chapbooks, your off-network literary gems, bring forth stories from small and indie presses, testify to the great novel from that writer no one has ever heard of ..... what books have you found outside the perimeter?
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What Costumes Shall The Poor Boy Wear
R. V. Branham
These are the people, this is their party, and these are the songs sung at their party.
—“What costumes shall the poor...
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Chucker was considered the energizing glue of his militia. He would get so worked up visualizing his enemy that an aneurism was often joked about. Veins bulged, red faced and ranting until hoarse, Chucker drove to perfect the throw of a spear in...
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If I rotate the word “cohort” in my head many times, it doesn’t necessarily lose its meaning as some words do; it has an aftertaste. Cohort becomes a sort of sneaky verb. I start to think about what’s tying any...
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There was never a man who practiced so vigorously as Chucker L. Marble, that a head injury should keep him out of the game. Chucker was considered the energizing glue of his militia. He would get so worked up visualizing his enemy, that an...
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Often I don't begin with an idea but with an increasing awareness that something is unbalancing me, some...thing in my small world is getting to me. The piece begins as a suspension of thought and a deliberate focus on an almost...
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