Vending Machine Press Issue #10
Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 10 are: Autobiography by Deirdre Coyle Blizzard of 1950, Eatontown NJ by Lee Landau Sheboygan County, Wisconsin No.1 [...]
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Autobiography by Deirdre Coyle
I was born in a haunted mansion upstate. We moved. I lived in the South. I learned witchcraft in my sleep. In a dream, the goddess Hera came to me dressed in sunflowers. I [...]
Blizzard of 1950, Eatontown NJ by Lee Landau
Sometimes, too many times Mom went crazy, never meant for children, particularly three girls in a low rent, attached home, three way-shared bedroom, and seven feet of play [...]
Sheboygan County, Wisconsin No.1 by John Dorsey
a kid jacking another kid in the face outside the elementary school an old man in a fur coat carrying a dollhouse picking through our garbage the loss of magic that [...]
Thirty by Rachel Harrison
At the age of 24 you will take a good long look in the mirror and realize that your face is asymmetrical. You won’t know how long it has been this way. You will have a [...]
the rainy part of the world by mark petterson
After the rundown middle school where I tutor a thirteen-year-old who reads at a second-grade level, and really we just read comic books and he pretends he is asleep and I [...]
Champ by Steph Post
We go down to the water to find him. Black crabs scurry up trees like rioters dispersed and needle-beaked birds balancing on spindly, backward bending legs eye us in with [...]
Two Poems by Sarah Sala
POEM AFTER MAN: KITCHEN TABLE 1. I thought here’s a man who owns who he is. Look how natural you move in your animal skin. 2. Paraffin wax burns at a steady rate of 0.1 [...]
two poems by megan kemple
Thanks for the Christmas Present I’ve always preferred thunderstorms to sunny days, Rain on rusted tin roofs, steady as my Mother’s tears, pinging the side of an A-frame [...]
Two Poems by Emily Bernard
TAKE A LEAF FROM MARY’S BOOK Virginal – winding as a wordy tour of a world For thrill rides – a four-minute toast to a man There is a limelight and you are green [...]
two poems by carolyn elias
Animals in Winter A pale yellow sun observes brown trout undulating inside a frozen lake, the red swollen bellies of cardinals cajoling grey squirrels and hares scurrying [...]
Rolling Papers by Audrey El-Osta
it was papercraft + origami, it was incensory + aromatic. You made an art of it when you taught me how to roll my cigarettes in the park. Pinch it, hold the tip, lick, twist [...]
Versions of the Truth by Richard King Perkins II
For J.P. In gym class, I saw his legs five times a week for three years of middle school. Those tortured limbs never stopped scaring me— to my eyes, they still looked as [...]
Chalk outlines of a future self by Jay Sizemore
I will leave the water running while I brush my teeth, because it soothes me. Being wasteful can be soothing. I wonder if every bad habit can be traced to a moment when the [...]
days i can’t carry by anna meister
Road trips are a good way to test compatibility. I know I love him because he doesn’t irritate me all that much even when I’ve only eaten trail mix, my legs folded asleep [...]
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