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Once mistaken for a man I began to dress like one. Tall, broad-shouldered, hair cropped close, I could wear seersuckers, double-breasted pinstripes, disguised, free to go anywhere I pleased. But I rarely spoke, and was the only woman my rich, old neighbor would eat with. After a day’s shopping for mission oak in SoHo, Brooklyn’s…
for John Casey It is only ever about power, see. Pick the crowd and pick your vantage point, then watch. Learn the con, you have to learn to look for what does not originate in ordinary. Hats will tow you in; and shoes. One good hour on watched shoes you learn the lessons of…
He will tell you how each day wears the impress of childhood fields, where he was made to kneel and harvest darkness, then extract its most pure element, which his father used on his mother with rags, like chloroform. This is the most you will get. He has no notch or opening primed for release,…
After all there is still truth and delicacy. Shall I tell you of the fat man in the darkened theater, or the Russian baritone and his waterbed? No, you want to hear about the scars, layered, scoring my wrists. The man who still sends me his hair, pungent through the skin of…
When you wash them do it gently with a mild soap and lightly swish. Silken, seamed, off-black, mist, dotted, patterned in some way, support, light support, sheer, nude, coal, reinforced toe, taupe, suntan, ivory, smoke, they’re in there now all crossed over through the small accumulation of bubbles which gather at the edges of your…
What strikes you first about Al Young is the voice. It’s a deejay’s voice — articulate; engaging; most of all, smooth — so it’s not surprising to find out that for several years, Young hosted jazz shows in Detroit for WDET and in Berkeley for KJAZ, worked as a public radio announcer, and performed as…
MASTHEAD Guest Editor Sue Miller Executive Director DeWitt Henry Managing Editor & Fiction Editor Don Lee Poetry Editor David Daniel Assistant Editor Peter O'Malley Staff Assistants: Barbara Lewis and Stephanie Booth. Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Karen Wise, Barbara Lewis, Maryanne O'Hara, Holly LeCraw Howe, Christine Flanagan, Michael Rainho, Tanja Brull, Phillip Carson, Sara Nielsen…
Do it instinctively, like washing your hands or fumbling for your glasses on the night table in the morning, even though, for a small ritual, it is complicated, a minefield of subtleties, an act of aspiration, self-hatred, theatrics. Stand before the full-length mirror on your closet door. You are dressed already, though your hair is…
It is perhaps the height of optimism to try to structure an issue of a literary magazine around some single subject or theme. There is clearly the notion that, floating around out there, waiting to be beckoned, are the requisite ten or twelve or fourteen fine stories which will exactly fit, which will make an…
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