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hybrid + poetry + fiction

issue 01

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On Finding an Unfamiliar Undergarment in the Back of Your Closet
On Finding an Unfamiliar Undergarment in the Back of Your Closet

4. Small, nocturnal creatures that attack fabric or wood. 5. One who mouths. 6. A window with no glass. 7. A piece of raw story, with a sprig of parsley on top. 8. To wear a knife...

 

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FictionBeth ShermanOctober 5, 2017beth sherman, on finding an unfamiliar undergarment in the back of your closet, fiction
Wicken Fen
Wicken Fen

Sing, sing, its bronze plumage bared for the first audience that will listen. Be it trees. Be it reed beds. Be it wind through the moorlands which it has been mimicking. It is a mutable thing...

 

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NonfictionTim KahlOctober 5, 2017nonfiction, wicked fen, tim kahl
Praise to the Window Blinds
Praise to the Window Blinds

The Lady of the afternoon shades remains
caustically unembarrassed and
better on intemperate days,
blinded in summer in winter in spring
she listens to her heart shivering
pop goes the eschatological cherry...

 

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PoetryDarryl Lorenzo WellingtonSeptember 26, 2017darryl lorenzo wellington, poetry, praise to the window blinds
Drinking in Berlin
Drinking in Berlin

We use other words for what we mean, and we weaponize the alphabet in both our languages. I’ve come here just to make you try to get rid of me again. I’ve come to make these people cry...

 

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NonfictionQuintan Ana WikswoSeptember 26, 2017drinking in berlin, quintan ana wikswo, nonfiction
Acute and Chronic
Acute and Chronic

...all I do is usher her into and out of

a little cloud of smoke

trying not to rupture its delicate ringlets...

 

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PoetryJason MorphewSeptember 25, 2017acute and chronic, jason morphew, poetry
You Asked Me To Describe It So I Did
You Asked Me To Describe It So I Did

...isaid/  itfeelslike/   speedingdownonewaystreets/    nodirection/     nostoplights/   and/ &/

andthecarsdonthavebrakes/
doesnothavebrakes/
imeanmyheartdoesnthavebreaks/
imeanicantbreathe/
icantsee/...

 

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HybridJoanna GordonSeptember 25, 2017you asked me to describe it so i did, joanna gordon, hybrid, experimental
Salt
Salt

Some believe it absorbs
all negative energy, can attack
demons, ghosts, black magic. Use it to clean
your aura...

 

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PoetryJoan MazzaSeptember 24, 2017joan mazza, poetry, salt
Girl
Girl

I know enough discarded parts, landfills of hips and thighs enough
to call it contagious, to lose the vision of women, communities of fleshy girls with bony hearts, bony girls with fleshy hearts, enough to blanket the world twice...

 

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NonfictionJoanna GordonSeptember 24, 2017nonfiction, girl, joanna gordon
The Algebra of Chance
The Algebra of Chance

 From here they look like one set of variables in a three-part algebra problem—a point of departure, a destination, the distance between. Read closely; parse the givens; set a clock ticking...

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HybridDavid MeischenSeptember 2, 2017hybrid, david meischen, the algebra of chance
Balance Disorder Inventory Poems
Balance Disorder Inventory Poems

Hi, I'm serpentine & will be eaten in two weeks. I've exploited

these simpletons since I was evergreen & now I think I'm ripe

enough...

 

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HybridMichael AlbrightSeptember 1, 2017hybrid, poetry, michael albright, balance disorder inventory poems
Quiz
Quiz

"When a zygote and another zygote love each other very much, they fuse and have gnarly, biologically-wrong, sad, incestuous clone-sex for the rest of their lives and end up becoming:

                     chimera..."
 

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HybridYu-Han ChaoAugust 31, 2017yu-han chao, quiz, hybrid, experimental
A Phenomenology of Strange Days
A Phenomenology of Strange Days

The night moon vanishes into the morning clouds. The colors blur into the spectrum. The voices recede into the distance. The way words begin vanishing inside the white page.

 

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FictionDarryl Lorenzo WellingtonAugust 30, 2017darryl lorenzo wellington, fiction, a phenomenology of strange days
The Memory is Enormous
The Memory is Enormous

There it spins

            – cars slow down to look –

 

A black hole in the middle of the highway...

 

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PoetryMichael J. WilsonAugust 11, 2017michael j. wilson, poetry, the memory is enormous
SLOW LIGHT YEARS
SLOW LIGHT YEARS

So we wondered and I guess it was only for a few seconds as she was at a pay phone in the rain or was it the wetness of the neon lights' drizzle, with some semi-anonymous city expressing itself...

 

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FictionPhilip KobylarzAugust 11, 2017slow light years, philip kobylarz, fiction
Hours

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