by Olena Kalytiak Davis | Feb 14, 2013
O my Love sent me a lusty list, Did not compare me to a summer’s day Wrote not the beauty of mine eyes But catalogued in a pretty detailed And comprehensive way the way(s) In which he was better than me. “More capable of extra- and intra- Polation. More...
by Teri Youmans Grimm | Feb 8, 2013
The shoe poised on the tip of my toe was a lure. Even directors important as Von Stroheim want to be hunted. You there (eyeing my ankle, my nearly exposed foot), you can dance? I nodded. We may let the camera see all of you. And like that I became foreground,...
by Marie Harris | Feb 2, 2013
She found a slim volume discarded or left behind on a bench near Fanueil Hall as we sat to eat our Thai takeout (but not for long because the whole area smelled like piss even though it was pretty and clean and shaded by tall trees) entitled: SOLV-A-CRIME PUZZLES...
by Cynthia Huntington | Jan 27, 2013
On a street in dream, in a town with one street, and snow banked on the sidewalks, the shops were open and people walked in the middle of the street; no cars were passing. The pigeons were all beautiful: green and red and blue, like parrots. Maybe they were parrots...
by Steve Langan | Jan 22, 2013
Agent 5 is a sleeper agent. By that I mean he’s a Russian citizen. Or a citizen of the country I will make his home in the book. Agents 6 and 7 are his closest colleagues. Sleepers, too, but 6 can speak Spanish. He’s one of those men who knows what to say or not say...
by Lola Haskins | Jan 14, 2013
Mason Bee Mason bees, who belong to the genus Osmia, do not live in colonies but solitarily. Some subspecies have unusual habits, such as lining their nest cavities with flower petals. Like a religious you stack your eggs into reeds and seal each chamber...