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- 11-01-2008
- A Splinter from the Devil's Mirror by Bryn Greenwood
- Between You and the Man-Sized Prophylactic with the Zipper by Tom Bradley
- Chief by Warren Buckles
- 09-01-2008
- Routine by Felipe de Oliveira
- Automatic Transmission by Warren Buckles
- 08-01-2008
- The Axiom of Choice by Jim Chaffee
- 07-01-2008
- A Pleasure Jaunt with One of the Sex Workers Who Don’t Exist in the People’s Republic of China by Tom Bradley
- Making the Switch by George Sparling
- 06-01-2008
- The War Prayer by Mark Twain
- 05-01-2008
- About the Dog by Robert Aqunio Dollesin
- 04-01-2008
- The Coup by Peter Schoenau
- 03-01-2008
- Art School by Zach Plague
- Consitutional Puppies by JR
- 02-01-2008
- Selection from The Vicious Circulation of Dr. Catastrope by Kane X. Faucher
- Party Pooper from Make Me by Eli Richardson
- Una Noche Perfecta para Sanguijuelas por Jim Chaffee (tr. Sonia Ramos Rossi)
- 01-01-2008
- A Night in Cameroon by Kelly Jameson
- Missile by Jason Jordan
- 12-01-2007
- Nothing by J.R.
- Sacrament by Sonia Ramos Rossi
- 11-01-2007
- Green Mountain Incumbent by D E Fredd
- When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot by Robert Levin
- 10-01-2007
- The Book of Ancient Wisdom by Hugh Fox
- 09-01-2007
- Dog Days by Robert Levin
- Junk-Pure by Forrest Armstrong
- 08-01-2007
- Beefsteak Mistake, Jake by Kelly Jameson
- Sand by Jim Chaffee
- 07-01-2007
- How to Make a Baby by Robert Levin
- A Rude Little Monkey by Kelly Jameson
- 06-01-2007
- Revolver by Sandra Ramos Rossi
- Brian and Mona by Jim Chaffee
- 05-01-2007
- El Castrator by Thomas Head
- 04-01-2007
- Alone, As Always by Jennifer Gardner
- 03-01-2007
- Polar Regions by Gayla Chaney
- 02-01-2007
- Two Stories of Sex Beyond Erotica: Editor's Introduction by Jim Chaffee
- Photo Finish by Anya Wassenberg
- Mephisto and Me by Lily Edwards
- 01-01-2007
- Management Case Study 17: Down East Chicken by D. E. Fredd
- MoM by David Quinn
- Full TEX Archive
Rock Stars in Particular Order
By Alana Nöel Voth
Her son sings to rock bands: Linkin Park. Green Day. Wheezer.
On the wall above her desk she’s hung a poster of grunge’s dead maestro, Kurt Cobain. The rest of the walls in her two-bedroom apartment are decorated with photographs of her son and his artwork: A self-portrait and an interpretation of Monet. Ella doesn’t have any pictures of her son’s father.
Working full-time hours and trying to finish a book she’s been writing two years. What’s important? Keeping up with her kid: Read to him; help him with homework; tell him you love him everyday.
It’s the girls in the audience she likes to watch, their faces on TV and how they smile, how their eyes glow. Ella sees a willowy arm in the air, a silver bracelet. Swinging. Reaching. She’d like to tell this young woman . . . what would she tell her?
Ella can’t articulate why she’s obsessed with a TV show, Rock Star: INXS, or that one guy in particular, JD Fortune.
Her son plays a guessing game. "Does that guy look like my dad? Does that one?"
