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05-01-2009
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Americans vs. Aneurysms by Eli Richardson
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12-01-2008
The Waiting by Brian Alan Ellis
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11-01-2008
A Splinter from the Devil's Mirror by Bryn Greenwood
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09-01-2008
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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
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04-01-2008
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03-01-2008
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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
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Rock Stars in Particular Order

By Alana Nöel Voth

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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?"

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