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Tourists & Residents
by Christine Allen
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
She is on a towel. She is on a beach. There are towels on all sides. Candy wrappers and tissue stick to the towels. The water is warm and full of people. The waves are not high. She watches her friend. He is at the …
Caprice
by Afshin Rattansi
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Leocadia and little Rosario are outside watching the woodcutter chip away at a diseased trunk. I’m alone to peer at my murals while I reflect on my imminent departure from Quinta del Sorda. I’m not disheartened by my having to pack up and move out. …
The Lure
by Steven Frank
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
An early February snowstorm raged tonelessly outside the office of Carl Drubner, patent attorney, swirling white hills and humps across the stretch of roof outside his window. The snow had begun as long ago as Drubner could remember, which was that morning when he woke …
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Smoking Hopes
reviewed by Richard Luck
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Winning the Washington Prize for Fiction for your first novel shows incredible talent, of which, admittedly, author Victoria Alexander possesses a lion?s share. She is a seemingly brash and witty woman, not entirely unlike Smoking Hopes? heroine, Charlie Dean, who worked part-time as a stripper …
The Uncertainty Principle
reviewed by Richard Luck
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
The Uncertainty Principle could best be described by saying it’s a “geek love-story.” The main character is a student at MIT whose developing a model for predicting weather patterns. When he’s not breaking into his mentor’s lab to steal information from the guru’s hard-drive concerning …
portrait One on One
Interview with Steven J Frank
interviewed by Richard Luck
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Richard Luck: What was your impetus for writing The Uncertainty Principle? Steven Frank: To celebrate the soul of the techie, and to offer an entertaining glimpse at their world for people who ordinarily might be turned off. My hope is that a romance set at …
Interview with Victoria Alexander
interviewed by Richard Luck
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Richard Luck: Did you have a specific reason for writing this book? Victoria Alexander: In the case of Smoking Hopes I was responding to Waiting For Godot. I personally don’t think it would be so bad if we found out that Godot was not coming …
import_contacts Zine-O-Rama
The Barcelona Review
reviewed by Richard Luck
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Barbed Wire
reviewed by Richard Luck
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Probe No. 6
reviewed by Richard Luck
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
local_library Poetry
Slurring
by Daniel Weinshenker
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Plums
by Daniel Weinshenker
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Identity
by Tara Agtarap
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
D. Days
by C.C. Russel
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Untitled 5
by Sarah Bodem
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Untitled 6
by Sarah Bodem
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Untitled 7
by Sarah Bodem
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Orange, Black, Green, The Carpet; The Sand
by C.C. Russel
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
No Paris
by Catherine Daly
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
After September 22
by Catherine Daly
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Pigmalion’s Wife
by Catherine Daly
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Touchstone
by Robert Klein Engler
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Final Exam
by Robert Klein Engler
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Edges
by Daniel Weinshenker
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
person_pin Essay
A Job That Pays
by Connie Miller
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
The night the highway patrol officer picked Andy and me up on I-90 about halfway between Chicago and Madison, I was a 21-year old graduate student who had never worked for a living. I’d had part time jobs-serving food, washing test tubes, typing index entries …
My Testicles Are De Happy Color Of De Cocoa Bean
by Michael Smith
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. —Henry Miller It’s amazing what …