Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 2
Dreams of the Beach
You said, come down to the beach and see, / but I lay face down on the bed in frozen jetlag, / our bags piled around me in various stages / of…
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Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 2
The Artist A Portrait in 15 Tableaux
He surrounds himself in beauty to drown out his feelings of inadequacy.
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 2
Dream after an open-heart surgery, or how a breakup feels after promises of marriage
Your heart is a surgeon. / It makes an incision in your chest / from within.
Script , Volume 9, Issue 2
A Pheasant Walks into a Bar...
Character list Brian Meade (barman) — in his late twenties Danny Nail — early seventies The Jackal — hard to put an age on him John Buckley — early…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 2
Revision
there comes a time when you are moved out of the lives of others / and can’t seem to inhabit your own — / you never knew your own, it’s true, / and panic…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 2
Talking Things Over
it’s run off its tracks, this train — / its rails could no longer stretch parallel / under a tongue too hot — / I only wanted to explain / and thought…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 2
And now?
You told me: I reconsidered everything, and it is best that you delete those photographs which have been tormenting you for fifty years from the shelf of…
Fiction , Volume 9, Issue 2
The Carnival Mask
Recording session of AE:07-PE, carried out by Archival Research-Assistant Dr Jerome Reid on the 28th July, 20XX.
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 2
Lost Letter to the North Pole
Dear Santa, / When I was five years old / you forgot to show up.
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 2
Darkness
stalks the books / Standing shoulder to shoulder / Like soldiers in formation / But defenseless / Against the treachery of madness / And the lights that…
