Fiction
Excerpt from The Artificial Silk Girl
By Irmgard KeunDownstairs from us lives Herr Brenner, who can't see anymore--no shops or checkered lights or modern advertising or anything at all.
Ms. Munch
By Kurt StrahmTo: Cynthia Munch, Comptroller, Grants Division From: Mitch Kakuski Ronald McDonald Foundation Helmsley/AMC Gitford Hotel
The Drink
By Pier Paolo PasoliniThen, the real customers started to wander down from the Ponte Garibaldi and the Ponte Sisto. After half an hour, the patch of sand between the embankment and the floating platform was as busy as an ant-hill. Nando1 was sitting on the swing, his back to me. He was about ten years old, scrawny and misshapen, with a large tuft of blond hair above his narrow face, on which a large mouth smiled brightly.
The Dogfish
By Pier Paolo PasoliniRomolé careened into the city marketplace. He was pedaling hard, staring straight ahead without looking right or left; he had decided that if a cop yelled at him to show his permit, he would pretend not to hear.
Close Reading
By Albert MobilioIt’s too brutal to believe. To suck it down till it stews spoils in my gut.
Manifest Destiny
By Bart CameronI’ve been working steady now for two years, since I finished high school. I throw tires at Klemen’s Tire Wholesale.
Arabesque for Sauquoit #2
By Donald BreckenridgeBill looked up at the faint shadows the candlelight projected on the ceiling of his study and whispered, “People need illusions, it gives them a sense of security.”
