15 August, 1998

Man in Box

by Dennis H. Renshaw, Jr.

remove_red_eye Memoir

import_contacts Zine-O-Rama

videocam Film & Screenwriting

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The Passion

reviewed by Camille Renshaw
Issue No. 15 ~ August, 1998

Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion mixes the cosmic and the carnal into a Napoleonic era, surrealistic romance. The plot and subject matter are nothing new. Winterson’s ideas about language are. The Passion creates, not so much a psychological identification with the main characters, Henri and Villanelle, …

Purple America

reviewed by Camille Renshaw
Issue No. 15 ~ August, 1998

Rick Moody’s latest novel, Purple America, is the story of a stuttering son, Hex Raitliffe, who is home to care for his mother, a long sick invalid, after she is abandoned by his stepfather. Over the course of a single weekend Hex sees his good …

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local_library Poetry

map Macro-Fiction

Allergy

by Armand Gloriosa
Issue No. 15 ~ August, 1998

Charlie was a horrible sight: his whole face was swollen like a balloon, and his eyelids looked like a pair of watery, glistening lanzones with slits in them. His nose was completely blocked, and he could barely breathe through his mouth. Tammy came into the …

Birklo translated by Mark Ostrowski

by Jorge Zentner
Issue No. 15 ~ August, 1998

“My secretary will give you everything you need,” said Mr. Nudel, and he pointed to the door with his cigar. That is how Birklo knew the fat man considered the conversation to be finished. He stretched his hand over the paper-covered desk, but Mr. Nudel …

audiotrack Music & Songwriting

portrait One on One

mood Humor

pages Micro-Fiction

Formation

by William Males
Issue No. 15 ~ August, 1998

Foggy mornings trainees grew like mushrooms in the company street. They had been regular folks, but now were regular army. They had dreamed irregularly before being drafted, dreamed now regularly of survival in the jungle. The sergeant referred rarely to their individuality and if he …

Counterpoise

by Kay Harkins
Issue No. 15 ~ August, 1998

The winding road stretched far ahead of him. That was what he wanted. The road ahead, yielding to each stride as had the road behind. In the moment of concentration to breathe, to perspire, to strain, without truly straining, to live with the rhythm of …

More Than a False Start

by Sloane Miller
Issue No. 15 ~ August, 1998

He takes me by the arm like a child out of fire-drill formation and kisses me. Another student walks in. “I forgot my lucky pen,” she tells the emptied room. With his back to us, he packs his briefcase. “We’ll go over that material another …

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