Underworked intern: Sorry, had to go hit my boss’ vape.
Overheard in Midtown Manhattan:
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Something Akin to Reverence
“I met him in Twin Lakes, a little village flanked by Mt. Elbert and La Plata, shrouded in fine windblown silt and smoky violet.”
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My Dreams, They Sound Like Running
My dreams, they sound like running there is a certain fever, a sicker fervor of second comings One day soon, you see the floodlight in the east will drag me from this slumber How long will my sheets hold the imprints of my limbs? I think these sheets have secrets ones I mumble in…
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Space May Produce
“It was a bad phase for us. She talked less of her work, and the dinner parties spaced themselves out like our bodies in bed at night. We tried, of course, in bursts of desire which came from compromise and mutual weakness, from moments when our problems didn’t seem all that threatening, but then I’d…
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Letter From The Editor
Dear friends, Much of life is going from here to there, and much of it is going back to here. From the bed to the world and back to the bed. From the hometown to the college town to the Big City, back to the hometown maybe, to start the cycle anew. From the…
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Bogotá
Lloras como niña empedernida: La lágrima rasga a ratos la cortina Y me miras, afligida, como si la culpa fuera mía. Me dices, a bocinazos, Que los carros te atraviesan la cintura, Y transitan tu pecho con su chafa montura Para sentarse a cuchichear. Si refundo tu voz entre el largo suspiro …
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Night Atlas
“If you took the highway and hiked the trail and camped out three days three times over very carefully it took a long time and finally it would be light, and then you could go to sleep, if you were in a place where you could sleep in the daylight.”
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Rave Inside the Machine
On the ironies of the corporate aesthetic embodied by DJ John Summit’s CTRL ESCAPE, raving inside the machine.
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Noble Motives, a Greek Tragedy
Characters WATCHMAN CHORUS of Naxian Elders AGATHON, candidate for Keeper of the Hearth EURYKLES, Steward CASSANDRA, scribe of the Naxian scroll FURIES ATHENA Scene: The island-city of Naxos, before the Hall of Naxos. The WATCHMAN is on the roof. WATCHMAN Deathless gods, with bloody tears I plead: grant respite from my plight, from Naxos’s roof,…
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Go Wonder at the Riders in Isatch Canyon
On a familiar battle between good and evil in Mark Z. Danielewski’s Tom’s Crossing, and its unfamiliar resistance to ambiguity and the moral greyspace.