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- 01-01-2010
- Idolatry by Robert Smith
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- Sam Edwine Gets That All-Important Publishing Contract, and Decides What the Key Word of His Book Shall Be by Tom Bradley
- 07-01-2009
- Notes on a New Financial Year by Chris Vaughan
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- 07-01-2009
- Mawlawchee by Ben Drinen
- 06-01-2009
- Successful P's by Chris Vaughan
- Excerpt from Dear Vito by Mickey Z.
- As the Song Goes by Ryan McBride
- 05-01-2009
- Menage a Deux by Hugh Fox
- Maybe I'm Stupid by Steven Schutzman
- 04-01-2009
- Americans vs. Aneurysms by Eli Richardson
- Application For The Chaparral Writers Society by John-Ivan Palmer
- 03-01-2009
- Swearing: A Bedtime Story by John Grochalski
- Excerpt from Dear Vito by Mickey Z.
- 01-01-2009
- Two Pauls by Warren Buckles
- Moments by Christopher Hart
- 12-01-2008
- The Waiting by Brian Alan Ellis
- Symphony #1: Roger Castleman by John Grochalski
- 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
- 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?"
