May 2011
22 posts
May 19th
Homage to Harriet Wilson
Katrina Stokes Excerpt from Our Nig as a Visual Experience Harriet Wilson provokes the reader immediately with the title of her story, Our Nig. To read Wilson’s story is to confront its title, the racism that owns the title, and digest its implications. The title renders the reader aware of the bias that Wilson writes within; the bias that has shaped her thought, limited her dreams, and...
May 19th
May 19th
Account Number 40053019
She ripped out all the pages of her diary. The binding became mangled as she imagined her lover breaking into her apartment and finding the hidden volumes of letters she wrote and never sent.  She knew she only needed one shred to mentally retrieve the secrets she had written. She waited in the line at the bank fingering her shred which she had scrawled her account number on as a disguise. She...
May 19th
Jamie Krasner, "Smear
SMEAR I slipped my finger into the small container and glided my tip over the surface of the contents within. The thick goo stuck to my skin. I admired the look of it, glistening a bright orange-red that seemed like a beautiful organic plastic. I was tempted to lick it off, but I kept my tongue inside, repelled by its smell–a mix of ointments and burnt rubber.             “Close.”          I...
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Jamie Krasner, "Smear"
SMEAR I slipped my finger into the small container and glided my tip over the surface of the contents within. The thick goo stuck to my skin. I admired the look of it, glistening a bright orange-red that seemed like a beautiful organic plastic. I was tempted to lick it off, but I kept my tongue inside, repelled by its smell–a mix of ointments and burnt rubber.             “Close.”           I...
May 5th
WatchWatch
Andy Chen, “Proportion”
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May 5th
Esther Hong, "deeper, grown darker"
  where the wheat fields grew starker   and where would you have me draw the line?   inching nearer and nearer to you following the lead, you’d have me inching nearer and nearer to you following your lead, i’d have you under the covers’ underbelly   and when would breaking the rules be fine?   lower, down the faint central line plucking the strings of your lungs, i’d have...
May 5th
Esther Hong, mapping out valentines"
  dear alaska,   he spoke in french about fedex, mailing packages of past colloquialisms past ways of saying i’m crazy about you   i told myself to listen to belle and sebastian more if only to tell you before you sent me away   i coded names, made you a location letters of your name defining you as a place   it’s written down in blankets of milk alaska, on thursdays when i was half...
May 5th
Esther Hong, "in the bathroom, three times over"
  i ran through the bushes came out, legs bloody as mary mary, mother of god, mary, lady in the mirror.   mary, in the dark you had me with three drinks in hand three times, drinking to your health three times, washing my hands three times, calling your name bloody mary, fate be damned   with the door closed behind me, my fevered eyes searching the hollowed tomb, deep and shallow, the mirrored...
May 5th