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Goofball

Goofball cf. suspenders. Encyclopedia of Surreal Encounters Field Agent: Zoe Lyons Reporting to: Samantha Schoech



Spine

My spine I find is mine. Sensory.  Sensitive. I saw it. It was I, in mountains of Canada and it looked like a snowy valley.  But warm. It looked warm. Yes, I could feel with my eyes its warmth. I saw – felt – inside myself, warm-snowy with a 30% grade decline. That’s how it was when…



Review: Small Creatures/Wide Field by John Mortara

Review of Small Creatures/Wide Field   by John Mortara Emily Kiernan John Mortara’s Small Creatures/Wide Field (theNewerYork Press) is a good-humored—at moments even celebratory—adventure through the nostalgia-soaked, meme-inspired, and often self-aggrandizing quest that is contemporary coming of age. Taking the form of a digital Choose Your Own Adventure, Small Creatures/Wide Field places the reader in…




Review: An Instrument for Leaving by Monika Zobel

Reading Instruments: A Fictionista Reports on Monika Zobel’s Poetry Collection An Instrument for Leaving Lindsay Merbaum If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know…




Lingentooten

Lingentooten Noun Organismal hybrid of the Eurasian spoonbill, the common hedgehog, and a flugelhorn, artificially developed by biologists investigating the properties of the improbability fields of Enceladus. This bipedal mammal ranges in size between that of a wishbone and of a dwarf lemon tree, and is characterized by its gentle, staccato song, sometimes described as “tootlenous.”…