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“Intervention,” “Dark Hours,” “Call Me…,” and “A Caustic Free Verse”
Intervention We knew going in our relationship wasn’t a keeper yet you stayed around, when I needed you most taking my hands pulling me close so I…
Anaïs Nin Returns? Part 1
When I was a student at University of California, Berkeley in the early 1950’s, my circle of friends included several graduate students in the music…
“A Sonnet for Elvira, Mistress of the Macabre, No. 13,” “A Sonnet for Suzi,” “Song: A Zombie Zonnet,” and Other Poems
A Sonnet for Elvira, Mistress of the Macabre, No. 13 She is a one-woman Sodom & Gomorrah…
Venus, Mars, or Mercury Retrograde in Furs: Drag Performance, Crossdressing, and Trans Characters in Film
I fell in love with Julie Andrews when she punched a hustler while coming out a closet dressed in a suit. The symbolism couldn’t’ve been more…
“Shimmer,” “Bristol Zoo, a Childhood Memory,” and “Jaws of Death, a Love Poem”
Shimmer Run through those long dark alleyways from street gangs in Barcelona, play the blues until your fingers bleed, never search the bottom of a…
Suburban Purgatory: A Review of Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn
Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn (Canongate Press, 2019) If you don't know who Everything But the Girl is, it was an English…
Go for the Gold
I know you have been busy, but thank you for coming here so late this evening. What I am about to tell you may scuttle your brainwaves for a bit.…
Making Mother Proud
Gerald couldn’t believe the beauty in front of him. He was absolutely terrified to be in the same room with such an attractive woman. His mother…
The Ambush, Part 10: The Changeling
The generals are now so terrified they won’t sit in on the director’s debriefing of Etienne; one was in fact so scared he fled the colony and is…
Second Kiss
"Let's go, little man!" shouted Trevor's mom from the foyer. "We're already late for your lesson!" "'Coming!" he replied as he gathered his music…
