By Marshall Klimasewiski
What was myth and what was reality in the unlikely courtship of Samina’s parents depended on who was doing the telling, and when. It wasn’t until she fell in love herself that she really started to understand why.
Stories
Family Inheritance
Five Insect Sex Stories
By Clancy Martin
1. The hermaphrodite slug, during sex, often finds itself knotted to its partner — all slugs have both sex organs, copulation is confusing for them — and forced to double back, in a kama sutra, to chew off its own penis. It can continue to have sex, after surgery, but only as a [...]
Five poems
By Priscilla Becker
A Loss
The bracelet that you gave me
doesn’t fit, and because of this,
I don’t own it anymore. It slipped
from my wrist at a poetry reading
given in a colonial building.
I thought of returning to that
building to rifle through the box
of lost and founds. But I did not.
And I cannot explain this.
I would rather, I [...]
Four Scenes From The Life Of Man-Rock
By Jeffrey Rotter
Who needs Sasha Fierce when your alter ego is Man-Rock?
Freizeit
By Lara Tupper
As a travelling food and beverage manager, Ben received six-month assignments in exotic locales, like Japan, where he and his girlfriend Ruthie were staying now. But while Ruthie dreamed of their future, the past held potholes — would happiness be as elusive as the healing onsens?
