Issue 44: 12 Oct 2017

Jump

By Yazmin Navarro There was always an ache. A pain that filled the inside of my belly. A pain that engulfed me. Of missing something. Of missing someone. Of missing my mother. It was the times. It was the need. It was seeing the hunger in her children’s eyes. It was the fear of watching […]

The Salt March

By Howard Richard Debs “We are entering upon a life and death struggle” —Mahatma Gandhi   The oldest, Gandhi himself, then 61 the youngest among those at the start, 18. There were but 80 in all to begin. It took 24 days, 240 miles on foot to reach the coast. 2500 would next march on […]

Season of American Lupine

By Lucille Ausman   he is out extinguishing wild fires lost in the smoke digging lines in the ground trying to trap her behind the wall before she can reach him suffocating in her fury he’s strong and brave and all American I guess but she doesn’t want protecting she doesn’t want to cool down […]

Breaking News: He Fakes His Orgasms

Psychologists detect pre-existing conditions. A spokesman for the silent majority replies. By Andy Blumenthal   Bunk. What crap. Another pathetic dig at our elected president. At least make it credible, the way normal fake news spins around real events like a murder or WMDs. Though he could probably easily fabricate ecstasy, it’s a bizarre slur […]