Ransom by Mark Budman Her skin changed colors every other second, and that was why she belonged to the lowest caste in her far, far away country. In fact, her caste was so low and so rare that it had only one member: her. People in the other castes had normal skin:...
Big Stone Lake by Denise Jarrott bare feet in the snow wandered off into a field he believed the field was heaven then he thought the snow was remnants of bodies of light. that heaven could be accidental, a wandering into a hallway, half in sleep half awake, and...
Rue du Cherche-Midi by Mary Mussman Is it fair to choose a book like Nightwood over you, to wander?For each of us longs to be Robin Vote,to allure, to err away, our days foreshortened: the dance, the blush. Never the second person singular, she eclipses into us,...
Taxol by Autumn McClintock In 1994 under FDA approval, Taxol, a semisyntheticform of paclitaxel from the slow-growing Pacific yew treebecame one of the best plant-based treatments available. Lucky yew: they semi-saved it,knew its nature (knew they needed it) and...
summer, like a nosebleed by Patrick Kindig there are children in the public pools& the public pools smell like urine. the sun touches them,colors the air thick & yellow. mornings beginwith a symphony of birdsong, sirens rolling. evenings humwith air...
