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The Bear of Dorian Gray; or... The Ides of Bonzo

by Kieran D'Angelo

[ july 03 ]

"Bonzo is a kind of joke name for a dog, a name from silly 1940s adventure stories. The creature simply answered to that name amongst the many thrown its way. That's my tune, it said, I'm a Bonzo. Yeah. Such is the cast of this story, such are the agents of destiny. They are puppets to obscure energies, sheathing gloves for dark forces, our little furry friends, the Quick and the Stuffed."

Rape

by William Levy

[ june 03 ]

"Wolf had met her the day before. They were both at a bring-your-own-cushion-and-rattle Voice of Shamanism workshop in Hampstead. These people thought ignorance was the same as innocence. Wolf approved of these shared paranoid delusional disorders. Encouraged them. He wished to know nothing except eternally to hope for uncertain things."

Smoldering

by Susan Buttenwieser

[ june 03 ]

"Things start the way they always do. It is Labor Day and Edie and Nick are having a late afternoon barbecue, not so much because they have any particular feelings about the holiday, but they like to have an excuse for a party and Labor Day is as good enough a reason as anything else."

Stop the war or giant amoebas will eat you

by Richard Peabody

[ may 03 ]

"Mock Iraq war stories started appearing in printouts that were passed around the entire high school. A handful here. A handful there. Each was only a page or two at best. Each had the heading: Yellow Rose."

Pink and blue

by Kate McCamy

[ may 03 ]

"She craves normalcy like a pregnant woman craves pickles - kind of, but not really... Mimi has no idea of what normal is, but it's gotta go down better than a sour pickle."

The lesson

by Beth Stiller

[ may 03 ]

"Jamming his forearm into the guy's the bow tie, and slamming the guy up against the wall, Lou yelled into his face, "How dare you treat people that way! Who the hell do you think you are?" The tastefully stained wooden wall shook, and pile of menus fell to the floor. The man's eyes bulged from his head. He adjusted his toupee."

The red line

by Carrie Haber

[ may 03 ]

"Yuri had a round, Slavic face with a consistent expression of mistrust upon it. His clothes were the general kind, like paperdoll clothes whose tabs bend around the waist and the shoulders. His heart was hollow and his ears hung off his head like agriculture."

The party device

by Magda Knight

[ may 03 ]

"Nursing the ampule in one hand, Fielder checked over the box's handwritten instructions. The effect of the drug was to overlay a filter onto what the brain perceived for a peak period of two to three hours. Okay. The user would go about their business in this reality, but would perceive it to be overlaid with the sensory input of another."