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TABLE OF DISCONTENTS by Russell Streur

CS — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:16:07 +0000

Offering 55 is now available: Table of Discontents by Russell Streur.

TABLE OF DISCONTENTS #21

DNA testing
Grief and fury
A continuous loop
Ceaseless violence
A rock and no place
Denial of the genocide
Records are sealed
A dark film
Deadlock

“They will come get me now,”
the man outside the café said.
“They will torture me and I will disappear.”

Information leak
Ordinary business.

DADA by Craig Scott

CS — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:01:58 +0000

Offering 54 is now available: Dada by Craig Scott.

A trust. Public. Little. Not.
Burning over its
make. For the
American deaths. In Eden. Not not.
Make America. It’s 1984.
Make mankind. Little over.

ill of i by Joseph A. W. Quintela

CS — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:53:12 +0000

Offering 53 is now available: ill of i by Joseph A. W. Quintela.

On Becoming Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway said she would

love walking in London, said Mrs. Dalloway, really it’s better than

being Mrs. Dalloway; not even Clarissa anymore, this being

the violent explosion which made Mrs. Dalloway.

Mrs. Dalloway, coming to the window with her arms full of [ ]

Mrs. Dalloway, coming out of [ ]

Mrs. Dalloway, raised her hand to her eyes and

taking Mrs. Dalloway’s parasol, handled it like a sacred weapon.

In came Mrs. Dalloway.

But, said Mrs. Dalloway, she had enough.

Oh, thank you, said Mrs. Dalloway, and thank you, thank you, she went on.

Mrs. Dalloway will see me, said the elderly man in the hall.

Who can — what can, asked Mrs. Dalloway (thinking it was outrageous to be

Mrs. Dalloway, who seldom met, and appeared when they did meet indifferent)

But Mrs. Dalloway had

been in a factory; behind a counter; Mrs. Dalloway and all the

hatred of Mrs. Dalloway. This grudge against the world, she thought,

did not hate Mrs. Dalloway.

Mrs. Dalloway said,

She despised Mrs. Dalloway from the bottom of her heart.

Mrs. Dalloway had triumphed,

had impressed Mrs. Dalloway (she could not get the thought

up), one by one, Mrs. Dalloway walking last and almost always

felt that Mrs. Dalloway was far the best of the

movies — when Mrs. Dalloway came

late (dear Mrs. Dalloway, we hardly dared to come),

drawing Mrs. Dalloway into the [ ].

HEART PIE by David Mac

CS — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:26:29 +0000

Offering 52 is now available: Heart Pie by David Mac.

Mascara

beetles in your boudoir belch from your black liquid eyes

your heart’s a grey ashtray the shape of a skull

I have come here again with my bouquet of wilting flowers

I have come to lovingly break your neck

and you can hardly believe the words hissing from my mouthpiece

they are not the ones you expected

so, as I cross the room to find a vase, all that separates us is

the sound of tears from your eyes, and poison from mine

- previously appeared in Purple Patch

MAD RUSH – The Editor’s New Project

CS — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:55:47 +0000

All, I have started up a new project: Mad Rush, a print magazine. Please venture over to its website and consider submitting your work during the mag’s reading periods. A direct link to Mad Rush’s submission guidelines can be found here.

Submissions to Ten Pages Press are still open.

WHAT I DID MONDAY by Tim Murray

CS — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:19:15 +0000

A new year! Here’s to another 50 e-chapbooks!

That said, offering 51 is now available: What I Did Monday by Tim Murray.

Genesis

God,

in his infinite gloom,

created man one afternoon.

Said God, “I need something

to laugh about.”

OF THE NONE EXPOSED by Michael Mc Aloran

CS — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:21:35 +0000

Offering 50 now available: Of the None Exposed by Michael Mc Aloran.

15-

Breathless eye

Of the begun

(spoken less of)

Vapours

Tracing the night’s

Parchment

Meat to tear

In sun sunk spun

Of ashes

Cadaver guillotine

Noose/ dread/ scuttling

In the dark

Muscle of pulse

All the while the ebbing

And the absence

Of all

Graceless

Traceless as the eye

Vacant of pupil’s light

HOJO BOY by Kyle Hemmings

CS — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:40:15 +0000

Offering 49 is now available: Hojo Boy by Kyle Hemmings.

hojo boy #11

when your fort[u]ne cookies make the hostess
w/ the most delicately timed noodles–blush

when we can no longer capture the white summer
girls in barefeet-barley-hop w/ instant flash

when i can no longer sauté your icelandic heart
in 3/5th wine & 2/5th jungle combat

will i reveal to you the secret ingredients
to my watergate goose-silent long-necked stew

i cook to the taste.

NOSE BUSTER by David Lawrence

CS — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:10:15 +0000

Offering 48 is now available: Nose Buster by David Lawrence

HAND IN HAND

Be a have not in a sack containing nothing at all.
In the promise of tomorrow you shut down.
You forget me not
And then no longer remember my name.
Have you given all your milk to that cow?
Is separation an impetus to come back together?
I love you so much that I could be content
Watching our hands walk down the street together.

THE TEN PAGES PRESS READER – VOL. 3

CS — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:32:45 +0000

Offering 47 is now available: The Ten Pages Press Reader (Volume III).

like a voice
David McLean
like a voice in the nighttime
a lady asking how empires fall
and what the point of it might be
building stones on bodies on pieces of time
they have sliced and keep in buckets,

all the happy ghosts standing on fortifications
where they have been soldiers,
where they have been swordsmen
or whores and glorious,
like a god dressed in the seed

of some deep avocation. promises
and whatever, all the reasons we are lacking,
all dressed up in eyes and voices
in the nighttime, ghosts again;
sex and time out of mind,

a night alive