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Recent Readings
Recent Print Publications
The Pinch – Issue 32, Number 1, Spring 2012
Man With The Sliding Pins
At the outset, it sort of tingles, then goes all ghostly, even though it’s still there. Started with segments of digit: top half of a big toe, two-thirds of a ring finger. The opposite of phantom pain. It proceeds with intensive anxiety, a fundamental surge of inevitable loss, separation, an unhinged joint. There’s little blood for such extreme lacerations, the platelets like worker bees cauterize the flow, and then a loose limb, pendulous and swinging from sinew, snaps, as a cartoon piano dangling from a window on a frayed rope.
Pearl – Issue 44, 2011
Ping Pong
Sometimes I picture us sitting at our desks as pieces on a chess board. Pawns up front, sycophants, raising hands, eager to answer each question. I’m on the side a few rows in, a knight holding onto an outdated chivalric code, looking at Lena, three seats behind/two rows over, making occasional eye contact and wishing she was mine.
Avery Anthology – Issue 7, 2011
This is Hardcore
Perhaps he slipped in a bit too quietly. Maybe she wasn’t paying attention. Either way, she didn’t hear him come into the attic, and since she had the volume turned down, he almost called out before he spotted a couple writhing around on the TV. Instead, he hid behind the door.
LIT – Issue 19, Winter 2011
No Man’s Band: The Life and Death of Reclusive American Musician James T. Selway (Excerpts from the Documentary Interviews)
I’m not a religious man myself. I haven’t read the bible, don’t put much stock in Revelation, but if there’s an apocalypse, his music will provide the accompaniment. That’s what it sounds like to me, at least. All moaning and grunts, yelps and weird out-of-tune instruments.