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An affair in ruins

by JR Carpenter

[ june 04 ]

"Professor Azar would venture into the light, to point to some detail, to draw our attention to some historic trick of light playing itself out on the classroom wall."

Perfect happiness

by Bruce Holland Rogers

[ may 04 ]

A very short story

Con trails

by Beth Stiller

[ may 04 ]

A short story about nomads

The birdcage

by Zdravka Evtimova

[ may 04 ]

"Often in the evenings, it seemed to me I heard the crumbling bricks talk in her soft voice about the dry river, about the nymphs that hid under the beds of faithless wives and in the old coats of their drinking husbands."

The waxwing slain

by Seamus Sweeney

[ april 04 ]

"The history of literature - the movements filled with lofty ideas, the endless manifestos and counter-manifestos, the all-too-serious sense of mission - can be considered a history of envy."

The protesters

by George Sparling

[ april 04 ]

"Contemptuous of that word "mellow" ever since he heard it uttered by a Berkeley radical, he no longer sneered at it. Reed knew he had become Left-Coast when he used that word casually in history class at the university."

Every man's got his price

by Robert M Smith

[ march 04 ]

"I want to tell you about a mercenary I met in Vancouver, in May 1968. I thought he was an anomaly among the peace and love propaganda that was prevalent during those years."

The howl of the years

by Stoyan Valev

[ march 04 ]

"He had been a journalist at various times through various social orders. There was no difference between any of these periods of time - the truth had always been strictly pieced out, isolated, guarded, cunningly manipulated, concealed, erased, effaced."