The
Faery Handbag - Fiction
Kelly Link
"I used to go to
thrift stores with my friends. We'd take the train into Boston,
and go to The Garment District, which is this huge vintage clothing
warehouse. Everything is arranged by color, and somehow that makes
all of the clothes beautiful." |
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Carmen
Dog - Fiction
Carol Emshwiller
"The beast changes
to a woman or the woman changes to a beast," the doctor says.
"In her case it is certainly the latter since she has been,
on the whole, quite passable as a human being up to the present
moment. There may be hundreds of these creatures already among
us. No way to tell for sure how many." |
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What's
the Story? Reading Anna Kavan's Ice -
Nonfiction
L. Timmel
Duchamp
Anna Kavan's Ice
is a novel of relentless, evanescent beauty that depicts a world
in which two explicitly linked forms of violence dominate and
inexorably and insanely destroy it. |
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President
Opens Third Front - Nonfiction
Leaked White House memo. |
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Sally
Harpe
Christopher Rowe
They tell this one in
those tobacco towns along the Green River. |
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Home
and Security
- Nonfiction
Gavin J. Grant
With
thousands of like-minded others, I went to the big peace rally
in New York City on February 15th, 2003.
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The
End of a Dynasty
Angelica Gorodischer
Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
The storyteller said: He was a sorrowful prince, young Livna'lams,
seven years old and full of sorrow. |
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Trampoline
-- slowy adding
a few stories from the massive Trampoline extravaganza. |
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Foreigners
Mark Rich
Release came
not as I expected -- burdened with fines, restrictions, armed
guard, and list of warnings longer than my conscience. |
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Rossetti
Song
Alex Irvine
Some people have always
wanted to be president, or a baseball player, or a movie star
or business tycoon. Me, I've always wanted to own a bar.
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Mrs.
Jones - Fiction
Carol Emshwiller
Cora is a morning person.
Her sister, Janice, hardly feels conscious till late afternoon.
Janice nibbles fruit and berries and complains of her stomach.
Cora eats potatoes with butter and sour cream. She likes being
fat. |
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Other
Agents - Fiction
Richard Butner
"1985 sure is dark,"
Nick said, and another 100 watt bulb popped gently in his hands.
"It's a good thing we have these protective gauntlets."
Nick waggled his hands and scattered shards of glass on the bedspread. |
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The
Army Wants You: Mom! - Nonfiction
Ok, look. What the hell are we going to do? Army -- and let's
not talk about Navy or Airforce, or the damn "special"
forces -- recruitment is down to god-awful percentages.
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Vanilla
Sky Redux - Nonfiction
Jack Cheng
Vanilla Sky is told from the point of view of David Aames, a
good looking (hey, he's Tom Cruise!), millionaire (his father
published TV Guide!), playboy (Cameron Diaz swallowed his cum
-- that means something!) who is not without his dark
moments (his parents killed by a drunk driver!).
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What's
the Story? Reading Carol Emshwiller's "Peninsula"
- Nonfiction
L. Timmel
Duchamp
The narrator of Emshwiller's "Peninsula" is apparently
talking to herself, but these words might also be an admonition
as to what reading this story -- and perhaps all of the author's
fiction -- necessarily entails.
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Three stories
by Ray Vukcevich:
Whisper
And then she
fired her parting shot. "And not only that,"
she said, as if "that" hadn't been quite
enough, "you snore horribly!"
No
Comet
Convinced
that my slant on Bohr's version of the Copenhagen interpretation
of quantum mechanics was our last hope, I bullied Jane, who
didn't want to be married to me anymore, and Sacha into cooperating
with a final desperate attempt to save the world.
Mom's
Little Friends
Because he wouldn't understand,
we left Mom's German shepherd Toby leashed to the big black
roll bar in the back of Ada's pickup truck, and because Mom's
hands were tied behind her back and because her ankles were
lashed together, we had some trouble wrestling her out of
the cab and onto the bridge.
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Perpetual
Motion
- Fiction
Dora Knez
Malfi arrived in the middle toilet stall of the men's room.
The Saurians had chosen it as the best way of concealing him
initially, though it was not ideal.
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Flying
Over Water - Fiction
Ellen Klages
Removed at Author's request.
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The
Death Penalty
- Nonfiction
Gavin J. Grant
The
death penalty is alive and well as Western calendars and Bill
Gates' computers nervously approach the year 2000.
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Factchecking
Submissions for volume 2, number 1 -
Nonfiction
I. McIttup
Enclosed is a brief summation of major points on the latest
batch of submissions to the magazine.
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Prison!
- Nonfiction
House prices
far out of reach? Can't
afford an apartment? Come to Prison! |
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Male
Blonding
- Nonfiction
From the
Introductory Section:
Male Blonding
is a modern movement that, however, has its basis in ancient
times.
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