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  • WHAT TO QUARRY

    I’ve heard that writing well is less a function of how many words you know and more about how you use them. I’d like to add that, for me, it also has to do with the words I find. I’ve spent many years looking for the right words, poking around in books and attics, old…

  • James McKean

    James McKean earned a master of fine arts from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has published three books of poems – “Headlong,” “Tree of Heaven,” and “We Are the Bus” – and two books of essays, “Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports” and “Bound.” McKean’s poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, The Atlantic…

  • Emely Villavicencio

    Emely Villavicencio is a seasoned graphic designer that enjoys using bright colors and bold imagery to create striking visuals. In her free time, she loves painting and drawing; you can often find her sketching on a pocket sketch book. She is extremely passionate about gender identity and is currently developing a website to provide support,…

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  • SEX ROBOTS COULD MAKE US LONELY AND UNABLE TO FORM RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER HUMANS

    When the dollhouses become our houses, or the other way around, when “no” is a ring around one planet or two or none, when eyes blink in lava lamp light as though in a solar flare, when breathing is more than a chest pumped from remedial paramedics training, when a tantric sojourn to self-enlightenment powers…

  • Martin Ott

    Martin Ott has published eight books of poetry and fiction, most recently Lessons in Camouflage, C&R Press, 2018. His first two poetry collections won the De Novo and Sandeen Prizes. His work has appeared in more than two hundred magazines and fifteen anthologies.

  • W.M.D.

    Persons Represented:  Wheeler Bledsoe- A 30 + year old, male African-American surveillance technician.  Richard Kawaler – A 50 + year old, white male surveillance technician  Lydia Kirylenko – A 30 – 35 year old female, a trained actress who has also worked in “gentleman’s clubs” and has been recruited as a surveillance special agent.  Frank…

  • Jeff Helgeson

    Jeff Helgeson is the author of fifteen plays that have been produced in Chicago, Milwaukee, St Louis, and New York. He has been the drama chairman of The Society for Midland Authors, as well as a charter member of The Chicago Alliance of Playwrights. He also was a founding member of two Joseph Jefferson Award…

  • OCCUPIED

    We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.  Michael Ondaatje I. As in a shootout, bullets crack against brick  or drywall. You hunker where surprised,  cheek pressed to a chair leg, body straining  to disappear into the well of a closet, a desk,  a bathroom stall. The air…