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UNDERGROUND
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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
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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
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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...
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Wolfus
June loved her feral children the moment she met them though they were having a tug of war over a television remote control. With their teeth. They came to her through a phone call. They'd been found in a...
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Stigma
©2012 Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Already a day, and they hadn’t cleaned up the body. She was half-nude, her skin turning a strange lively blue, and even though there had been others, this one corpse had not been removed, and so...
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THE LAST AFTERNOON OF THE WAR
There weren't any children playing on the lawns on the way to the tram-stop. You know, Mona thought to herself as she climbed...
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Sometimes I like to be able to step back from the words on the page and doodle the characters drunkenly on cocktail napkins. This is not necessarily to lay down the specifics of say, their clothes, but to hash out an overall energy to...
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Father Supreme
Who dispatched Caligula one winter's day?
No love, just feathered duck
to dine on me his misery.
Jackboots and that look
which sent the hounds ascatter
splintered spoils of his war of poverty...
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Dark bodies emerged at Colwyn Bay
Are they zombies or slaves
at the Tsar's behest?
Or maybe fishers
of men
the impovershed infinite
scratching for tin and green molluscs
chained to Easter innocence
in their paucity and silence...
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He curdled the milk
of his own wife's breast
Ding-dong all children gone
He made me a barren squaw
And he did it with pleasure
I've lost the simplest notes
leather volumes choked on the dust
A full...
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By Andrew Selsky
COHORT early 15c., "company of soldiers," from M.Fr. cohorte (14c.) and directly from L. cohortem (nom. cohors) "enclosure," meaning extended to "infantry company" in Roman army (a tenth part of a...
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Short story ideas tend to come to me as titles first. A phrase may pop into my head. It bobs and hovers, trying to find itself, and I feel inspired to figure out what that story would be. It serves as a jumping off point, and helps my...
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Isabelle was holding the book in her hands, propped up against her knees, but she wasn’t really reading. Her eyes came back to it, followed a few lines, her fingers flipped a page once in a while, but the book itself nevertheless remained a...
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A group of Red Lemonaders and myself, via email, chat and telephone conversations, had a lengthy discussion about a new theme for the writers, readers and members of our online publishing community. The Hybrid Beasts manuscripts...
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RED LEMONADE is seeking submissions for its first community curated anthology COHORT. The anthology will be based on a more transparent editorial model, where the unique features of Red Lemonade’s manuscript submission...
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Seal
2011© Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
I grew up in a city comprised of many small villages, and the one in which I lived was called Bloor West. The villages functioned as islands untethered from one another, but close enough to transmit their...
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Cutt dropped his pistol and bear-hugged Marsh. For a split-second he wasn’t sure he could budge him. Cutt’s bulk pulled his arms taut and his fingers kept their...
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