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Benediction, novel excerpt from Charles Dodd White

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Rusty

Chap­ter 1 Lava­da rose to the iron dark and stepped bare­foot across the cab­in floor, paus­ing and plac­ing her hand to the door to test the wind's new ache. To know it as her own. Touch told her she would need … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Poems by Shannon Hardwick

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Rusty

BARTENDER-LONELY How can you stand so many peo­ple, I ask, drunk. Shirts dirty them­selves for the wash­ing, wait­ing for a woman’s hands, he said, I’d steal their laugh­ter, pawn it for a hand­gun just to piss some­one off. I’d drink myself into mys­ti­cal … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Dennis Mahagin's FARE now available!

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Rusty

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Opening Day, fiction by Nathan Graziano

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Rusty

The fore­cast is call­ing for rain on Open­ing Day—not show­ers, but a holy-shit-the-sky-is-pis­s­ing April down­pour. He packs his books into the box­es he picked up at the liquor store while his wife stands in the door­way to their bed­room, her … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Puercos Gordos, fiction by Michael Gills

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Rusty

She was a year younger than me and semi­fa­mous.  I’d seen her all through high school, and then on the hood of a white Corvette as Miss Lonoke in the Soy Parade, a dis­tinc­tion that sent her to the Miss … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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I Need Help (CANCELLED AFTER SO MUCH SUPPORT!) THANK YOU!

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Rusty

Finan­cial help, that is. My print­er is suck­ing up print car­tridges like meth. Because of var­i­ous rea­sons, all unavoid­able, I don't have enough mon­ey to buy print­er car­tridges to fin­ish Dennis's chap­book. I need just a few bucks, maybe $25. … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Goodnight, Gramaw, by Misty Skaggs

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Rusty

Every night, at two a.m., I kneel at the altar of her rust-brown reclin­er. After the cred­its roll on past The Big Val­ley, and Miss Bar­bara Stan­wyck has her last, hearty laugh, I fill a plas­tic pan packed home from the hos­pi­tal … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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The Stray Cat, fiction by CL Bledsoe

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Rusty

Joey had been suc­cess­ful­ly dodg­ing Tom­my, who’d had been tweaked out on home­made meth for near­ly a week, until Tom­my decid­ed he’d had enough of the stray cat nos­ing around the house. So he told Joey to leave some tuna … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Poems by Mather Schneider

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Rusty

FIRST HUNT The first night I had my driver’s license I drank a 6 pack and bor­rowed my mother’s car. I turned the head­lights on, backed out and was about a half mile down the road when I had a col­li­sion … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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NASCAR, poem by Perry Higman

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Rusty

NASCAR (Penn­syl­va­nia 500  at POCONO, July, 1998) To:   Gov­er­nor Tom  Ridge of Penn­syl­va­nia, giv­ing  a guest politician's dull monot­o­ne deliv­ery of the com­mand, "Gen­tle­men, — start — your  —  engines," at the start ofthe Penn­syl­va­nia 500  at Pocono – From:   the young … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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