Category: editorial
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Afternoon Dream (Low Fever) & Other Poems by M. Mitchell
Mark J. Mitchell’s latest novel, The Magic War just appeared from Loose Leaves Publishing. He studied writing at UC Santa Cruz under Raymond Carver and George Hitchcock. His work has appeared in the several anthologies and hundreds of periodicals. Three of his chapbooks— Three Visitors, Lent, 1999, and Artifacts and Relics—and the novel, Knight Prisoner…
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Kohlapuri Chappal Incident by S. Edwards
Sarah Edwards is a struggling writer deeply involved in experimentation with the English language and literature. Her work is forthcoming in Electric Cereal and Reality Hands. Kohlapuri Chappal Incident This is about the time when my mother sent me to buy Kohlapuri chappals[1] for her but it is not about the time that made it…
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Introducing the Black Gentrifier: An Emerging Social Anomaly by M. Pitter
Streaming in popular discourse has been the phenomenon of gentrification in which it appears mostly that young, open-minded, aesthetic-seeking white people move into low-income neighborhoods eventually causing the rent prices of these neighborhoods to rise and the blacks and Latinos who had lived in these hitherto-low-income neighborhoods can no longer afford to live there. Soon,…
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Correlations between Heat and Hostility by M.Pitter
In Act I Scene I of William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, the Earl of Westmoreland reckoned that the cause of the recent violence was due to the hot climate of the summer season. In Shakespeare’s famously enigmatic syntax, Westmoreland reflects and reasons: “On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald, That…
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WTF: Should we be mad at Rolling Stone?
If you haven’t heard by now, Rolling Stone magazine has released the cover for its August 1st issue, featuring prominently the bushy visage of the Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.




