in the issue.

in heat.

Twilight of the Idles

—Stephenie Meyer and Her Pedophilic Friends

Lady, or the Tramp

—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.

by Ian Gronau | 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.

by Luke Rodehorst | 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.

Ah, but what a god! He who makes the highest temples of heaven tremble with his explosions!
by Theodore O. Nielsen
21 Jul.
tags: coming soon!
syProfile: coming soon!

the jungle.

The Careful Continent

by Joel F.S. McMurry | 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 Donald Evans | 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 J.P. Gorman | 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

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revue.

Run, Rabbit, Run

by Amanda Hughes | 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 Paula Carter | 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.

Keep Me Bright-Smiling

One-Word Title, Like a New York Restaurant

Milagros