Category Archives: 2013-edition
Little Mama in the Bambi Hotel
By Katie Kapugi She remembers the feel of her tiny son’s mouth sucking and tugging at her cracked flesh. While he nursed he scratched with tiny nails. Squeezing her breasts her husband whispers, how nice it is finally to be … Continue reading
Pick Me Up
By Katie Kapugi Whiskey in my glass– tiny icebergs click to the deep beat of some forgotten song that lures the lusty to grind their hips, to make come-hither eyes, and writhe with shock wave skin- every molecule pressured into … Continue reading
The End of the Affair
By Katie Kapugi Ankles fettered to twisted sheets, your inclination, the angle of your body in golden light, is slanted– crossed by the crooked shadow of bent blinds, A positive declination on a lumpy hotel mattress. You seem a creature distant, unscathed … Continue reading
Je N’oublierai Jamais
By Katie Kapugi …and I forget again how precious- quick it ends how everything meant so much… our slowly sagging skin your crow-feet wrinkles one last sun-kissed cloud. Regret is just something I don’t do until I remember what I … Continue reading
On a Bus after Albee’s Zoo Story
By Mike Beasley Up stepped she and paid her fee, Thrusting with studied gravity Each carping coin into the fare box mouth. Ignoring other vacant seats, She chose the one in front of mine, The back of which I had … Continue reading
A Story is Like a Kiss
By Andy Brucia Through great mental discipline, hard work, and a propensity for drink, I have managed to forget most of what I was taught during my college days in the north, and I believe I am a richer person … Continue reading
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