Ace Boggess – Why I Can’t Draw Portraits

Why I Can’t Draw Portraits I suck at stick figures: they lean & sag like fuzzy old couples hiding out in their summer homes. I never saw myself sketching trees, saying Breathe, breathe, while I faked the leaves. Those pictures of rabbits in backs of comic books? The ones with captions like Are you an […]

Sara Backer – Such Luck

Such Luck My California single girl bedroom: cinderblock shelves, futon, paper globe light, wine bottle candlesticks coated with waxy stalactites. Lacking men to stay the night, I drank in bed. The more I drank, the larger my glass grew. I waded surf with cabernet in hand and yearned for love. Until I sipped and found […]

Introduction by Editors Bruce Boston and Marge Simon

Introduction by Bruce Boston and Marge Simon Spend five days in the park like you never have before. Travel the last fifteen years of Nikola Tesla’s troubled and unfulfilled life. Watch a small child fashion a golem from clay to protect her home from invading armies. Listen to its consciousness as it comes to life. […]

Mack Mani – The Ghost of Sigma Chi

The Ghost of Sigma Chi They say I was a Chi O girl or a 1950s haze-gone-wrong, an OD or a suicide and there was one sweetheart who swore up and down that I was her aunt, slaughtered by Ted Bundy in the summer of ’76. I polish off the empties and give the freshman […]

Denise Dumars – Mars Must Remember

Mars Must Remember Ice cubes clink in the red warrior’s drink and he gazes fondly toward his iron planet, a scarred and winded desert of a land. You remind us that all politics are local politics, that peace depends upon a show of strength. Then why the desolate landscape? Is the face of Mars really […]