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APR 2008

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Fiction

Genomica

by Susan Daitch

Fiction

A new threat arrived on Nir’s desk late in the afternoon. The envelope was buried with other interoffice notices and memos, although the thirty-nine cent Lunar Year of the Rat stamp revealed only that it had been mailed from the outside.

Floats Horse-floats or Horse-flows

by Leslie Scalapino

Fiction

“Floats Horse-floats or Horse-flows” is based on the notion of “alexia,” word-blindness, but not arising as a nervous disorder, unknown words create a future.

Triptych

by Mojie Crigler

Fiction

The affair began in the summer when their skins were tan.

Dionysus the Liberator

by Andrea Lawlor

Fiction

We were known at every hipster joint and gay bar on Fifth Avenue: the Weslyan-diaspora bar, the Oberlin-diaspora bar, the ex-Lesbian Avenger bar. We just drank all the time, every night for months.

Triptych

by Mojie Crigler

Fiction

The affair began in the summer when their skins were tan.

Tragic Strip

by T. Motley

Fiction

Comic

 

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