Issue 11: 9 Feb 2017

Double

By Harold Jaffe   The perils are vast, the receptors are slick, seductively small. The perils are not vast, the receptors are not slick, seductively small. I see the homeless huddled against the steel-glass wall of the stock exchange. You do not see the homeless huddled against the steel-glass wall of the stock exchange. I […]

To the Man Who Shouted “What does your pussy taste like?!” as I Ran By

By Courtney LeBlanc It tastes briny, like the ocean. It surges, waves pounding the surf, punishing the sand simply for always being there, for always being present, for never leaving well enough alone. I keep running, ready to drown him in a sea of my pounding feet. Previously published by Rising Phoenix Review.   Courtney […]

March, redoubled: When plans go South by K Walton

Hi, Julie, Thank you for writing your essay, “March, interrupted: When plans go South” (Writers Resist, February 2, 2017 issue). Thank you for raising your pen in service of the movement and for speaking from a place of awareness and resistance. Thank you for lifting up hope in the face of all the fear and […]

Two poems by two poets

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Fun to Be Fabulous

By C. Gregory Thompson “You look just like my aunt,” the woman said to us, looking at my friend, Sara. “But, of course, she’s dead now.” We were perched on the aqua blue cushions of an outdoor couch on what we jokingly referred to as the “lanai” at Rancho Las Palmas, a resort in Palm […]

84 Lumber Super Bowl ad: The uncensored film

From the family-owned 84 Lumber Company The original 84 Lumber Super Bowl advertisement created a stir: The content was deemed too controversial by Fox, which banned it from broadcast. An edited version was cut for the game, and The Washington Post published a story about it—because the controversy was reportedly due to the depiction of Donald Trump’s proposed border wall. […]