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March 2012

A Call to Occupy

Inspired by the massive public protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and Madrid’s Puerta del Sol Square, hundreds occupied Zuccotti Park near Wall Street from Sept. 17 to Nov. 15, 2011, as part of a campaign dubbed "Occupy Wall Street." Developing a common slogan "We are the 99 percent," solidarity encampments and demonstrations have been organized across the United States and the world to call for economic, political and social change. A global day of ... Read More

Articles/Reviews

Bad Daughter - Sarah Gorham
It's as if she has taken the Almighty aside and nudged Him in the ribs (and he woke up and?) ... Read More

Articles/Reviews

He Took a Cab - M. Schneider
It isn't just the fares who are down on their luck, if they ever had any luck at all, but the cabbies, too ... Read More

Panic - Laura McCullough
These poems address the limitations of our control over our fates, our private grief and longing ... Read More

Poems Against War
Anybody who thinks writing a good poem is easier than making a fine cabinet is an oaf ... Read More

Shadow Traffic - Richard Burgin
Richard Burgin's fiction is often described as "gritty," but after reading his latest scintillating collection of stories, I thought perhaps a ... Read More

Show Up - Mark Wisniewski
In the end we might just as well take Wisniewski on his own terms because the story and characters don't necessarily fall into ... Read More

Stalin in Aruba - Shelley Puhak
… brims with a dark humor. The poetry, lyrical, full of fresh, vivid imagery, is saturated with grim irony ...Read More

The Iron Boys - Tom Frick
At times you can even hear Huck Finn in Corbel's narrative (and who doesn't love that guy?) ... Read More

They Could No Longer Contain Themselves
The stories in these five chapbooks are barely contained, bursting out beyond the confines of ... Read More

Tracks - Eric Goodman
A parade of colorful characters reappear throughout, narratives overlap ... Read More

Quictions

Neon
by Cait Turner

… like those old bodies coughing spasmodically into hazy neon evening, nothing stays forever ... Read More

Quictions

Twist Ending
by Eric Cline

It was written (with deliberate vagueness) that Les dressed in a business shirt, but no one ever said what business he was in ... Read More

Family for Sale
by Eric Goodman

It's a shame, when you think about it, that you can't trade in a family. Like a car or a girlfriend ... Read More

Lunch on the Grass
by Michael Hemmingson

I see no use in starting a war with any adult here in the park ... Read More

Duffy
by Jeevak Lal

"He who dares wins, he who dares wins," was Duffy's joyous response ... Read More

An Interlude
by Jeff Price

"And if he jumped off a bridge?"
"That'd probably mean he was jumping after me, Daddy."...
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Remembering the Blackout of 2003
by John Richmond

It wasn't until the station went completely dead that I slowly began to put two and two, together ... Read More

Suited for Marriage
by Julie Mark Cohen

"Look at this. The New York State Legislature passed the same-sex marriage bill and Governor Cuomo signed it. In thirty days, you could've saved your money and gotten married at home."...Read More

How She's Changed
by Kelly Cherry

He had begged for her love ... Read More

The Four Seasons
by Paul Dickey

I had to laugh. I didn't know if he knew what I knew about Sherry (turned out he didn't), but it didn't matter....Read More