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A Brief History Of Cola by Glen Armstrong

Though cola is undeniably a cultural construct and any modern, identifiable culture should be able to construct a Rube Goldberg-inspired machine, to speak of “xenophobic [...]

September 2, 2016

On Donald Trump Tweeting that Meryl Streep is One of the Most Overrated Actresses by Amy Saul-Zerby

February 1, 2017

This year we learned the difference between shock & surprise & maybe too late, but who would have thought, if given [...]
About The Universe by Eleanore Lee

September 2, 2016

Why worry? In five billion years our sun will become a spuming red giant. Will it matter then who got Mother’s Ming [...]
Sharing Music by Emily Alexander

September 2, 2016

Dark morning reaches through windows until the sky is smudged silver like the teakettle on the back burner. Here is the slip [...]
With Feathers by Sheldon Lee Compton

April 10, 2017

What place is safe now, so we can say what our good logic leads us to understand? Saying we will create our own sunlight, [...]
Queen City by Richard Luftig

October 1, 2014

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. – Attributed to Mark [...]
Make Me Think Twice by Matthew J. Hall

June 1, 2014

Every time I drive you to it you pull back at the moment of impact your heart is too big your intentions and dreams are too [...]
Two Poems by John Stupp

March 19, 2016

Colorado Sometimes it hits me the last time I saw my dad he was in a cardboard box at a crematorium in Colorado cold as [...]
the sun shouts at us in tongues and other poems by William James

January 20, 2017

The sun shouts at us in tongues through the tower window. Calls us by name & we hide ourselves from its gaze. From the [...]
Let He Who Is Without by Kevin Brown

December 1, 2014

She carved my sins in soil we left untended, remains of a garden from the previous owners, letting time and wind wear them [...]
Ready for Texas by Nicole Bennett

December 10, 2016

Digging into the sweet potatoes with the two knives held between his ﬁngers like chopsticks, he asked me, “Where are [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #4

June 1, 2014

Dear Readers, Although it is summer in the northern hemisphere in the southern hemisphere we are preparing for winter. [...]
Cena Trimalchionis by Benjamin Goluboff

December 29, 2016

The long withdrawing roar can no longer be heard above the small-arms fire from the clubs and schools and churches. Forests [...]

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