spring/summer 2012 Issue 10
excerpts “His only vice was that he sang old boleros on the weekend in his apartment using a
SPRING/SUMMER 2012 ISSUE 10
GROWING UP
a room full of voices
thick Castilian tongue that made us question his origins. Although the sounds of our curses ran easily from our mouths, it was hard to forget whom we were talking about. It was hard for any of
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us to understand why he, above anyone else, would steal something as irreplaceable as time.
Señor Ignacio Perú Joseph Cáceres page 10
Yesterday’s Whales Megan Mayhew Bergman page 27
anything he could do to make my Slurpee taste better and he “I asked him if there waspoured a healthy dose of vodka in.”
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out of the bathroom and wagged the positive pregnancy test wand in front of his face. “I burstImmaculate conception is out, I said. God and I aren’t on good enough terms.”
Night at the Reservoir on Airline Drive Kathy Fish page 47
He and Ashley build a castle of primary colors. Yellows and reds. A tower for a princess “and a turreted wall for the king. In the back, Cuth constructs a gallows. He does not tell Ashley what it is.”
After the Intromit Douglas W. Milliken page 50
“To produce Jar, I’d been informed, Pascal had emptied out a jar of strawberry jam, wrapped it
in newspaper, and then filled it with two hundred milliliters of Ebola-infected chimpanzee blood, which he’d purchased from a PhD student at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Sealed Vessels Ned Beauman page 112
growing up
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who was in debt to her skunk dealer. All his other recent work was of that same category.
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