Spring 2010

from the editor

Taylor Durden stepped down after getting this issue together, but another has risen to fill her costume

Yours,
The Management

credit: Sarah Ahmad

combustibles

Bitch Boy ₪ David Erlewine

Mistress Raven Heart Warrior drags me off the bed and makes me declare, four times, that I am her little bitch boy.

Two ₪ Dorothee Lang

Two have been cut off. They are placed on a silver tray now, black fingers with white figures on their surface. The nails aren’t broken, my hand isn’t hurting.

The Great Soul Suck Taste Test ₪ Dis-Ease

A table lined with heads full of eyes looking around looking, but heads locked in place by clear vices.

Beast ₪ Len Kuntz

She realized the problem had become insurmountable when she began masturbating on the way to work.

| / ^ \ ₪ Alan Stewart Carl

I once said to Rowan, “I like you so much I want to shrink you down and put you in my pocket.”

Three Time Loser and Here's Maybe Why ₪ Sheldon Lee Compton

The girl must have been fifteen or sixteen. I remember her wide eyes, not frightened but manic.

Scenes From Jurassic Park 5 ₪ J. Bradley

Tonight, her wine glass is bulimic.

Not the First Time, But Close ₪ Christopher Daniel Zeischegg

Standing behind the lens, he asks more questions: my best sexual experience, what I love about a woman’s body, and how often I jerk off in any given week.

Circling Vultures ₪ Matthew Amundsen

They shifted nervously in the stale hospital quiet, one that’s never truly silent. I’ve tried escaping into it but the hums of the monitors and the clockwork pinions of medical perpetua always betray me to the angels of agony floating on memory wings.