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Randy Dalzell
Ann

Keith Wood
Secrets

Rachel Kendall
Axis

Peter Robertson
Trip To Hell

Cynthia Ruth Lewis
Incidentals

Kenneth Mulvey
15 Dollars, Bargain Sounds, and We Are Fearless

Dave Morrison
Man Oh Manifesto

Simon Friel
Day 1

Alexis Child
War Hammer

Richard Fein
The Hundredth Poem

Fiona Helmsley
Smoking Struggles

Keith Wood
Alone

xtx
A Movie Preview Story

Jennifer Smythe
What Married Men Taste Like

Jan Steckel
The Horizontal Poet

Eddie Kilowatt
The Porn Debate

Justin Hyde
Car Full of Chickenshit in Front of Me

Nicholas Karavatos
She Knows I Exist

Michele L'Heureux
Deliverance

Bob Boston
Surf and Turf with a Goodfella
on the Low-Down

Michael Gurnow
Afterward

Michael K. White
Ralph and the Rubbers
(A Cautionary Tale)

Milan Smith
Sara's Flesh

Scott Casale
Outside: The Mind of a Serial Killer
       

Aimee DeLong
David Henry Sterry Interview
       
Neeli Cherkovski
Hitchhiking

Daniel S. Irwin
Heaven On Earth

Patrick Carrington
One Mighty Fine Piece of Strange

Levon D.
The American Vital

Peter Grieco
White Out

JeanPaul Ferro
Prudence Island

Adrian S. Potter
What the Dealer Didn't Tell You About Heroin

Glenn Gray
Mr. Universe

Phil Vas
Let's Split Up

Matthew D'Abate
I Shall Lay Beneath the Ground
and You Will Walk in Sun

Sean Dempsey
The Date

J. J. Campbell
You Can Thank an Above
Average Brain

R.C. Edrington
For Lack of Bullets

Ramona Thompson
The First Night That I Bleed

Nancy Devine
Excreta

J. D. Nelson
Believin' is Easy

Wesley Durham
Material

John Grey
Paranoiaville

Jennifer Smythe
You Know the Feeling

Beth Harrington
That Thing That Goes
Bump in the Night

Aimee DeLong
The Book Fair Con

Robert Lewis
Needle Priest

Dana Grandstaff
Keeping it in My Pants

Mike Blake
Where to Now?

Louie Crew
View from One Porn Booth

Matt Sutin
The Bureaucracy of the Body

Julie Kovacs
Fake Mission

Barton Smock
Slide Rule; Mother's Notebook

Foster Dickson
Murder Ballad

Carmelo Valone
The Hustle of Being 18

Keith Wood
Another Day

Andrew Coburn
Home Front

Taylor Collier
The Accident

Robert Lewis
Interviews Matt Richtel

Daniel Irwin
If Santa Were a Pirate

Gina Abelkop
Fell The Maya

Aleathia Drehmer
Brevity

Jennifer Smythe
Spin

Charlie Dominick
Bedtime Stories: A Brief Introduction

Dove Cochrane
Anxiety

Carol Maric
WaitHere

Pete Simonelli
Something Like Iron Lifts

Ian Tichrist
The Nihilsm Bible

Fiona Helmsley
Feed Me, I'm Yours

Ron Lieback
Misplaced Medication

Michael Hartford
Among the Moabites

Debbie Kirk
Punk Frickin' Rock

D. Richard Scannell
The Brakeman

Cynthia Ruth Lewis
The Advantages of Lunatic Writing

E. C. Jones
Lord Jim

Michael Internicola
The Sun is Mine

Josh Olsen
Faith

Jamie Lin
An Overdue Burial

James Bodden
Tarted-up Ganymedes

Jaime Street
That's the Power of Pine Sol, Baby

Martin Hoeldtke
Wife's Two-Pronged Approach
Forestalls Husband's Thanksgiving
Dinner Pussy Jokes

Justin Hyde
//at the moline illinois greyhound station//

Juliet Cook
Jelly Toy Saturation

Doug Draime
The True Story of Noah

Tracy xtx
False Partying Prophets

Ryan Dee Gilmour
Still Life in Cubicle

Nicholas Morgan
Adios

Tony DuShane
The Gun Tastes Awful

J. C. Lee
Butterflies and Toilettbowls

Nick Ostdick
Ronald Jones Loves Me

Randy Dalzell
Kira's War

John Vieczorek
A Change in State

Lola Nation
Crammed Inn Heroin Tales

F. D. Marcel
1st Time W/.38

Garrett Clark
Frankie Never There

Fern Capella
Come to This

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
My Face Has Fallen

Christopher Barnes
Black Cloud in Green Sky

Tony DuShane
Kelly Girl

Luis Rivas
Terrel the Porn Star

Karl Koweski
The Great Funeral Home
Candy Bar Heist

Will Carpenter
The Cold War, or
Oil and Water

Nicholas R. Morgan
Saving the Dead

Scott McCarthy
Love, Take 31

Alida Santandrea
Appetite Lost

Miles J. Bell
Ne perdez pas votre tête

Phil Primeau
Poppies

Sean Kilpatrick
We Always Bring the Chalk

Paul Corman-Roberts
Why I Started Writing Poetry

Ellen Keffer
Ye Olde Brain Tumor

Jane Joyce
Se7en Reasons Why People Die

Scott Tienken
Edward French

Matthew Stokoe
Cows (entire novel for free)

Dan Fante
Mom at 89

Christina Ginfrida
A Sonnet for a Sassy Slasher

Karl Koweski
Holdfast, The Tyrant King

John Hodges
Fourteen Angels

Keith Wood
Doorguy

Mathias Nelson
Breaktime

Paul Corman-Roberts
A.M Fever

Gary Lundy
Exorcism: The Bliss of Happiness

Melissa Krone
Fire

Allison Landa
Maternal Instincts

Jamie Lin
Submerged

Joseph P. Brennan
No Title

Matthew Stokoe
Cows (entire novel for free)

Luis Rivas
Somewhere in the World

Michael Internicola
Shadow Man or Rico the Rock

Angela Ash
Melting in Your Back Seat

Simon Friel
Any City

Michael Estabrook
Chimpanzees

Paul Corman-Roberts
Letter To a Young Underground Poet

Willie Smith
Benny Saves the Day

Randy Lowens
The First Time

Bryan Stillman
Why the Spiritual Seeker and
the Drug Addict Climb the
Same Mountain!

Michael Shannon
You, Dave Eggers, Shall
Know My Contempt!

Patrick Carrington
The Smoke of St. Anthony's

James Babbs
Jesus Falling

Hannah Leah
Strange Threats of Water Turned
Up In Her Cards

Kathy Polenberg
The Day I Quit the Circus

Michael Conrad
Writing in a Bar

Paul Corman-Roberts
Spawn of Enron

Izaak
Dead Jacko

Victor Schwartzman
Fables

Jonas Knutsson
Visiting Frank Rogers

Matthew Stiles
Nickeless

Allison Landa
Milk Carton Poster Child

Dana Grandstaff
Autopsy-Turvy

Stephen Morse
Court Rules Nude Barbie
Photos are Free Speech

Nicole Henares
Blue Snowflakes:
Sketches of Sean III & V

Charlie Dominick
A Black Heart Procession

Paul Corman-Roberts
New College Graffiti

Lisa Marie Kelleher
Lucy

P. H. Madore
Drunk Again, Wondering

Rochelle Moore
Fancy Dress

Keith Wood
Godspeak

Joe Brennan
I'm Leaving But I Don't Have
Anywhere To Go

Chris Major
Mother's Ruin

Michelle McDannold
Monkey Bars

Gerald So
My Father's Last Breath

Melissa Silvestri
Trip Like I Do

Michelle McGlynn
Black Comedy

Delphine Lecompte
The Price for not Living

Theo Kipnis
Stop Slowly Every Moment

Dani Bauter
The War Inside Him

Paul Corman-Roberts
Found Workplace Harrassment

Cynthia Ruth Lewis
I Am The Disease

John Sweet
In The Age of Broken Glass

Eddie Kilowatt
Rent

Andrew Demcak
Stopped Dead (for Aaron Brown)

Gerald Sheagren
It Was Elvis

Devan Sagliani
Rabbit's Last Run

Joshua Scott
Good Fortune

J. Brundage
Oblivion Gardens: Chapter Two

Paul Corman-Roberts
Smooth Ride

M. Frias May
Security at a Corporate Bookstore

David Thornbrugh
Sushi Worms

D. B. Cox
Repitition of a Song

Nicholas Karavatos
One June Eighty Seven

Angela Ash
Last Year's Jeans

Raina Bird
Rachel Goes Down

Noah Ruderman
Companion

Beth Harrington
The Day the Sky Exploded

Paul Corman-Roberts
Long Gone 95

Misti Rainwater-Lites
King Kong

Harvey Goldner
New Orleans Poem for
James D. Newman

Taylor Collier
It's Easier

Robert Lewis
I Didn't Know
What I Was

Keith Wood
Down the Rabbit Hole

Devan Sagliani
Pray They Don't Know

 

Paul Corman-Roberts
Late Sunday Night Rooftop
Elegy for the Bench & Bar

Karl Koweski
Low Grade Telepathy

Vanessa Silva D’Amelio
Hail Hail Hookers

Luis Rivas
SUBMISSION NO.
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Will Carpenter
Isobel Shines*
(part four)

Luis Rivas
Salvation

Joel Bignell
Hoe Down

Chris Cox
The Weird Mr. Walnut

 

Poetry:

Paul Corman-Roberts
What the Condors Knew

Karl Koweski
Smoking Dope and
Shooting Stars

Keith Wood
Bobbing and Weaving

Tracy XTX
All I Need is the Elvis Lip

 

Will Carpenter
Isobel Shines*
(part three)

Craig Wallwork
Scare

Andrew Walton
The Man with the Horn

Steven J. Dines
The Fifth Friend

Paul Corman-Roberts
Everyone Gets Well

Tom Sheehan
Dillinger, At the Movies

Dana Grandstaff
The Girl with a Brain
Like a Hotel Corridor

Ted Jackins
This Notebook is Nearly Full

Robert Guskind
Love Machine

Bob Shattuck
Please Hold On As Sudden
Stops are Sometimes Necessary

Joel Bignell
Stiff as a Corpse

Steven J. Dines
Leaving on a Wide Angle

Will Carpenter
Isobel Shines*

Keith Wood
Making Soup

 

 

Paul Corman-Roberts
Exorcism Keeps Us Regular

Jennifer Smythe
Pretend I'm Not Here

Luis Rivas
Hemingway at the
Fire Room

Willie Smith
Native Tongue

Will Carpenter
Isobel Shines*

Keith Wood
Glue

 

Kris Saknussemm
The Trust Test

Paul Corman-Roberts
The I Told You So Club
(or "The Bronze Age Sky
God's Favorite Tool)

Scot Jenkins
Smoke

Al Bloom
Harry's Time

Beth Harrington
Carbohydrates Addicts
Anonymous

Delphine Lecompte
Only Daddy Can Break
Your Heart

Will Carpenter
He Did This to Himself
or so they say

 

David L Tamarin
Head Blown Out

Miriam N. Kotzin
Scar

Delphine Lecompte
Not Impressed by the
Chalked Threats of
Tight Flemish Johns

Lee Reynoldson
A Question of Faith

C. C. Parker
Ultra Maroon

 

Summer Sunday
Death in the Summer

C. C. Parker
Miss America

Paul Corman Roberts
The Trip

Delphine Lecompte
Weeding Whores and
Hoeing Weeds

James Harris
Average Guy, Average Life

Theo Kipnis
Art is Cognition

 

Beth Harrington
The Man I Love

Paul Corman Roberts
Gnarled Thing

Keith Wood
Tammy (A Fragment)

Delphine Lecompte
Woman is the Mule of the World

Will Carpenter
I Forget

 

 

C. C. Parker
The Fertility of Death

Bob Shattuck
The Punk Rock Gig

Delphine Lecompte
God's Silence

A. D. MacDonald
Kidney: A Love Story

Dan Fante
For A

 

C. C. Parker
Hell

Willie Smith
The Red Priest

James Harris
Being Pamela Anderson

Will Carpenter
I Ate the Sleep

Mike Pence
Amy Hempel Interview

Delphine LeCompte
No John Can Cramp My Style

C. C. Parker
Fools and Cosmonauts

Delphine Lecompte
Rough and Ready to Faint

Jennifer Smythe
Would I Dye for You?

Dave Clapper
Joy of Athena

Robert Lewis
Cockroach

Daemeon Dawes
Action

Delphine Lecompte
maff would have understood

DB Cox
Motion

Will Carpenter
say the first thing that
comes into your head
when you see me

C. C. Parker
Going Out West

 

Delphine Lecompte
Don't Forget to Swagger

C. C. Parker
Mud

Stacey Graham
Sex for Drugs

Victor Valdez
People Like You & Me

Rob Rosen
Tasteless Joe

Will Carpenter
It's Where Happiness
Comes to Die

Karl Koweski
Gramma K and the
Cum Sluts of the Apocalypse

C. C. Parker
Dry

Dani Bauter
Unrequited Orgasm

J. Brundage
Cool Down

Dan Donche
Randy


 

 





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