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in heat
—Stephenie Meyer and Her Pedophilic Friends
—The Equivocations of Stefani Germanotta
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Twilight of the Idles
—Stephenie Meyer and Her Pedophilic Friends
The Settlement
—A Homecoming Story
Lady, or the Tramp
—The Equivocations of Stefani Germanotta
Nymphets
—New Galerie of Photographer Caitlin Arnold
The child's erection was sold into the sex trade and mass-reproduced in the toy factories of Tantus, Inc.
She rolls into his gravel driveway and waits with the engine idling. He appears at the front door and glances casually at his watch as he approaches, letting her know he knows she is late. Old irritation flares inside her like an ulcer.
If Gaga's desire is to become a pop-music pioneer, she has succeeded, since no figure in the history of her field has glamorized the vagina as much as she.
Our newest Galerie features the work of Caitlin Arnold.
fresh off the press
Jesus People USA
by | 5
An arrhythmic heart beats in the breast of this commune, a blurred portent of something utterly rotten. The feeling is usually elusive, however, like indigestion without a culprit. The man’s daughter extends me another invitation to eat the food.
Always West
by | 0
Right at the crux of the turn, where bright headlight beams reach their limit in the outer dark, a tight cluster of four white crosses flashes into focus. A moment later it’s gone. There’s been colliding here. Now our car propels its pilgrims forward, eating the road beneath.
the jungle
The Careful Continent
by | 1
Laws limiting the freedom of speech display the utmost arrogance of socially super-conscious statesmen and their amnesia of the 1910s and 1930s, decades that proved that laws nannying the right to expression today are no safeguard from social injustice tomorrow.
Tiger-Poaching
In the Age of Moloch
An Il-Fated Missive
menagerie
Chicago Writes
by | 3
All of this sound – some of it music, some of it noise – gets integrated and processed through our literature, and those individual literary achievements help us retain a collective spirit, a Chicago spirit.
Another Man’s Treasure
A Match in Bridgeview
A Stitch in Time
on the chopping block
Heard Mentality
by | 3
The mainstream knew about this independent scene, heard the music in the ethos-sharing “indie”-movie movement, … but the latter years of the twentieth century saw “indie” rock remain distinct from popular music.
Getting the Last Word
The Opposite of Transcendence
Ruffled Feathers
revue
Run, Rabbit, Run
by | 2
I watched in horror as the gooey thread stopped and, still attached, sped back to whence it came. The hideous thing smacked me across the eye just as a shirtless, six-minute-per-mile runner shot past me.
Motherland
Songs of Ourselves
The Olive Tree
fiction & poetry
Hello, Daniel
by | 0
The shell-less egg has hatched into a million small lizards, which have crawled out of the bowl and are swarming on the table.




