MAYDAY

Further Reading

How to Write
by David Ehmcke

    1 Steal everything you can from Whole Foods.     2 When  the  guest  lecturer  tells  you  he  has  a secret,  then  leans in and bites your ear,  keep your eyes open. Pretend to be asleep.     3 Call  your  mother.  Watch  the  room  fill  with water as she speaks. This is […]

WOUND an entry from A Whaler’s Dictionary by Dan Beachy-Quick

Ahab is not driven by pride; he is a man guided by wound. This wound is worth meditating on, for it can explain more than anything else the nature of the relationship between an I and a You. When Ahab lost his leg to Moby Dick’s scythelike jaw, he simultaneously struck out with a dagger […]

I SEE THE ATTIC 
by Charlene Fix

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde   It was the habitat of ghosts, and a black suitcase stenciled AKC for my mother, Anne Kobrinsky Cohen, who is a spirit now. There was writing on the walls, some ours, some scrawled before our parents ever […]

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