Monthly Archives: September 2014

What We Really Are: Our Best of the Net and BILiNE nominations

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September 30, 2014 by author

Awards season is upon us, and the confluence of nominations for both Best of the Net and Best Indie Lit New England being due has given us cause to review our entire past two years’ worth of work. It’s moments … Continue reading→

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St. Frankenstein

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September 26, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

St. Frankenstein
(A Tony R-9 story)
By Marc Olmsted

Miley Cyrus had just died. The funeral was held in the sky. I did not attend.

What to tell you, Lear. You know I’m good hash, down in Los … Continue reading→

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Poem by Jason Dean Arnold

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September 24, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

Late
By Jason Dean Arnold

Southern cottonmouth secrets undermine action
as angels circle out of reach.
Burn desire to edible ash.

Vultures dine.
We’re enemies of everything.
Burn this poem, untranslated.

Reading ruins language.
… Continue reading→

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Five Poems by Claudia Serea

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September 22, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

December song
By Claudia Serea

Gray December
of patrols in the street,
Hurry up, shiver, Be quiet,

December of listening to the radio
for clues, volume down,
and at night, listen to gunshots
and … Continue reading→

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The Unbearable Darkness of the ’80s Flashback

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September 21, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Victor D. Infante

I’ve been looking at photographs from the ’80s, all the black clothing and wild hair. My friends and I were young then – in our teens and early 20s — but looking back, there was a … Continue reading→

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