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Archive for the ‘July 2010’ CategoryJuly 5th, 2010 
Prompt: Using the above image, write a microfiction (less than 500 words—yes, 501 is more than 500). In your piece, respond to the image in the above photograph. Your piece may take any form you like as long as it includes less than 500 words and relates, in some way, to the image. Have fun with it. Deadline: July 31st, 2010—Midnight … July 5th, 2010 
by Winona Wendth The offices of Fuchs, Felix, and Anuran are normally damp. The building’s maintenance crew installed a complex system of de-humidifiers, but they don’t work well in the muggy Virginia heat. Felix, Fuchs’ corner of the building suffers most; they are on the northeast side and do not benefit from the broad light of the southern sun. … July 5th, 2010 
Recently, I pondered the question: “what exactly is it that causes a person to become insane?” This is an old question, of course, but I had not meant to pose it to the altogether dry criteria of some clinical source like the DSM-IV. Not even the legends of history would suffice, for I remained convinced that somewhere between the atrocities of a man Emperor Nero and the glassy, zombie-like gaze of a homeless man downtown lay the heart of the poet. There, I surmised, I would find my answer. Sylvia Plath came to mind immediately. … July 5th, 2010
by Shimmy Boyle Shimmy Boyle has a beard and drinks coffee and owns houseplants. He wishes he had a pet duck. When he finishes writing this, he is going to take a nap. While he is doing that, maybe you can visit his website: www.shimmypoetry.com. … July 5th, 2010
A man comes in. He is tall and fair, his eyes are a dazzling blue. He looks at the woman. She looks at him. He sits down at the table across from her. She goes on turning the pages of the yearbook, smiling to herself now and then as she reads the autographs written by her classmates long ago. She knows the man is watching her. She tries not to look at him. He comes over to her table and asks to borrow the jar of honey she is using to sweeten her tea. She smiles and says, “Yes, of course.” … July 5th, 2010
Sure, pyrotechnics are nice, and a brilliant use for gunpowder. But to properly celebrate our Nation’s Independence Day, one needs nothing more than some Founding Fathers and large, unhealthy amounts of booze. … July 5th, 2010
Alexis Covato, a.k.a LEX, is a gallery painter as well as commercial illustrator. She studied Illustration at Columbus College of Art and Design as well as Fine Arts and Art History at Chatham College. LEX does editorial work for magazines and has worked with advertising agencies here in Pittsburgh. Among her clients are New York MOVES, San Francisco Weekly, Brunner, CalPOP, Point Park University, etc. … July 5th, 2010
Inside, he found a body with brown hair in an austere cut, nearly the same as his own. The body wore a simple black running suit, no jewelry, not even a watch. The face looked vaguely like Mart’s, and so he went next door for a second opinion. … July 5th, 2010
by Lisa Marie Basile There were no real men here, no one that could make a little soft claret cup bloom, no one that could take a little coffin varnish without feeling like he needs to shoot a man. … |
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