by Gabriella Herkert The world has been a pretty confusing place in the last year. Wars and recession. Weapons of mass destruction and SARS. Pretty much everything after the World Trade Towers fell has seemed big and dark and scary. Now it’s time to elect a President again and in a world with so much [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2003
Why I Married My Wife by Robert Levin
by Robert Levin I was, I suppose you could say, in a prepartum depression. It started when my wife, Connie, decided it was time to have a baby. I was thirty-one and she was twenty-eight, a circumstance which, I reminded her in my argument against the idea, was no cause for alarm. But after she’d [...]
Nipples Beads Mealie Pap, VII by Jennifer Spiegel
by Jennifer Spiegelwords words words books There’s something about the bar that reminds me of Texas. We arrive in Graskop, a quaint town in the Eastern Transvaal. Little shops and a place to get pancakes are the main attractions. We look at art galleries during the day and go to a bar at night. Inside [...]
Nipples Beads Mealie Pap, VI by Jennifer Spiegel
by Jennifer Spiegel mosquito net chocolate Hluhluwe I’m the girl who gets the guy. We fall asleep. His body against mine in a way that suggests an accident in positioning. We arrive at Kruger National Park, the premiere game park in South Africa. The ‘Big Five’ are there: lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, and rhino. Roughly [...]
Leaving by W. A. Smith
by W. A. Smith Davy Calhoun slipped the driver’s seat back a notch, folded his hands in his lap and stared at the Brigham’s bright white house across the street. The hedge had grown a foot since he saw it last. How come Molly’s dad hadn’t kept it trimmed? The old man must be getting [...]
Nipples Beads Mealie Pap, V by Jennifer Spiegel
by Jennifer Spiegelshag fuck Bourke’s Luck I sit between Nick and Ingrid in a Range Rover. Dylan sits with the Swazi game park ranger in front, the Germans are in back, and we’re in the middle. Jens, a quiet man, is wearing a Nine Inch Nails t-shirt and Lena, the self-possessed Botticelli, is wearing one [...]