Issue 86: 02 May 2019

A Walk in the Sun

By Milton P. Ehrlich Shooting at each other— more exciting than sex. Blood tastes better than vintage wine. One of our ladies-man guys howls in pain trying to piss. Sergeant bellows: Ain’t you ever had the clap before? If I was not ordered to carry the BAR—slung over my weary shoulder with a torn rotator […]

Going Gray: A Woman’s Right to Choose

By Dorothy Rice   In a 2005 essay, Nora Ephron wrote, “There’s a reason why 40, 50, and 60 don’t look the way they used to, and it’s not because of feminism or better living through exercise. It’s because of hair dye.” She went on to say, “In the 1950s, only 7 percent of American women […]

After

By Calida Osti   You can’t cover it in snow. It will seep through and turn into muddy slush and slide into your neighbors’ third story windows right past the new drapes they ordered from amazon.com. You can’t redecorate it or rename it and think that will work new names are old names. It isn’t […]

Mr. Trump’s Sunday Morning Service

By Judith Skillman   Water-worn image of an eye etched and lined, the tilted earth no longer holds its metal. * Water worms the soil until a hollow man comes to rule— a toad gurgling ribbit ribbit. * Power over versus personal power duel it out à la 21st siècle psycho babble. * To whomever […]