fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home Page* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
Somebody Else’s Heroes
She is a plane low on fuel.
I am a lighthouse.
I live in a ground floor fire.
She is a strong rope.
I am a veteran lifeguard.
Her foot is caught in train tracks.
She unites unlike things in a metaphor.
My life is a sine and a tangent.
I carry a landslide on my back.
She is a truck full of cleaning supplies.
She is plagued by insomnia.
I can debug any software.
A shark has me half-swallowed.
She has a meteor warning system.
She mourns the death of a friend.
I have an emergency ace up my sleeve.
I am a mugging victim.
She has life-saving fashion tips.
Her sense of self is lost.
I have a perfect sense of timing.
She is a crop lacking sun and rain.
I am a winning lottery ticket.
I want a smile or a touch.
She is a preacher with the right way to live.
It’s tempting to think we might
have been somebody else’s heroes.