fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PagePamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
Ghost Train
From the years just after the War I remember them
in the fairgrounds of battered South Coast resorts
or at the far end of piers, their clunky darkness
competing with Wurlitzers and the slot machines
that told your penny fortune or let you almost see
what the butler saw. Outdated Gothic bric-a-brac,
witches, skeletons, bloody tendrils of flesh
oozing from canvas walls—a makeshift horror
for those of us too young to have known the real thing.
Those who have never set foot in the past would not understand
how the eight-track massacre’s caught in perpetual motion,
how the fairground music will never stop,
how the ghost trains still run on time