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Hotel Palestine

Tom Paine -

JORDAN A few days after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, Ann Prendergast left the hospital after a miscarriage. She slipped over the border...

GORILLA PAINTING 26″ x 32″ ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

Kris Bertin -

Present arrives from brother for 29th birthday. Painting of Gorilla with hands raised, palms-up, sitting in marshy field. Dead and disemboweledGorillas peppered around swampy landscape,...

Pop

Mindy Hung -

The first burst balloon was not entirely William's fault. The days had been getting shorter and the wind carried a chill, but he did...

Great Mind Destoyer

Robert James Russell -

A desperation sits deep in her, something she longs to rid herself of yet whose origin she cannot wholly explain. She lies in bed...

The Convicted

Mariko Tamaki -

When the women came looking for Robert in February, on the evening of our house's Valentines' Screw You and Your Politics party, we were...

The Bad Arts: an excerpt

Aaron Peck -

Bernard went to the nearest liquor store to buy a bottle of wine. He had been invited for a dinner party at Jeremy Croft’s...

Roots and Soil

Lyndsay Michalik -

Maggie’s grandmother grew turnips. Maggie remembers the dirt under her grandmother’s fingernails and in the creases of her hands after digging them out of...

Cookie Dough

Jon Reiss -

Just out of the subway I spotted the idling hybrid Toyota that 2Byung said he'd be driving. I looked through the window and saw...

Glory

Catie Disabato -

The three of us tossed Avi in the bathroom and locked her in. She screamed for hours, until her voice gave out, then banged...

Everyone I Know

Stephen Thomas -

Called my ex on the phone and said how about now. They said not so sure bout it, I know we’ve talked about things...