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From "The Far Side of Yeehaw Junction" by Sofia Viglucci, CQR #43:
There’s an eight-acre cemetery in the middle of Fort Drum. It’s where my brother ought to be, dirt-bound in a graveyard on the edge of Florida, hanging like a loogie from the mouth of America."
From "Incineration" by Chuck Kramer, CQR #43:
"my dad was not a romantic
he installed an incinerator
in our basement when I was eleven
and after dinner each evening
I took the trash
to its gluttonous maw and filled it
with newspapers and milk cartons
and boxes and old, worn rags"
From "The Man Who Wouldn't Cheer For The Tsar" by Malcolm Rothman, CQR #43:
"The pain that had been troubling Charlie Sirota had continued to grow in intensity. Indeed, in the last couple of days he was unable to eat or to even get out of bed."
From "Psych Ward - August, 1998" by Claire Scott, CQR #43:
"Dead flowers drooping in dusty vases
rows of empty bookshelves
no belts, no shoelaces, no drawstring pants
TV droning sitcoms with canned laughter
no one is laughing here
no clocks, no keys, no cameras..."
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From "Sportsmanship" by Richard M. Lange, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"At nine o’clock, Carla decided that she was too hungry to care how one angle within a triangle could be deduced from the other two and closed her textbook." #literature
From "Blood" by Roy Parvin, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"Only Marco’s heart raced most days. By now, four-plus years removed from his double victories in the 1998 Giro and Tour de France, it was an open secret that the great climber was in steep decline." #literature
From "The Devil's Oatmeal" by Kathleen Founds @kathleenfounds, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
#graphicnovels
From "In Bonny Doon" by Christopher Buckley, CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"2 slim apple trees flourished
outside your studio, a dozen
redwoods and Sierra Red Firs
edging a circle of salt grass..." #poetry
From "Six Drunk Boys In A Dodge Coronet" by Miles Harvey, @MilesHa91389803 CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"Decades later, they can’t agree on how it happened or who was behind the wheel or what stretch of Roosevelt Road they were on when it took place..." #literature
From "The Bookman Vanishes" by Priscilla Turner, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"We drove overland like travelers in the Old West, across Texas in the oven-baked landscape of June." #literature
From "Barback" by Dan Millar, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"It’s a strange angle, viewing this
from a crouched position
where sideways movement
across the rubber mats
causes tire marks on your knees."
#poetry
From "Bad Fat" by Lou Mathews, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"Maugh’s latest was about a bat colony in New York that starved to death, attacked by this white fungus that made them burn calories even while hibernating." #literature
From "The Great Mirror" by Karen Joy Fowler, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "Recognizing oneself in the mirror can be a tricky business. I haven’t done so since I turned fifty." #literature
From "A Story From The Last Book" by Charles Holdefer @CharlesHoldefer , CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"For the last six months he’d rented an upstairs room from Mrs. Swanson, who was also the owner of the Blue Star Diner, where Von worked as a cook."
From "The Vault" by Lisa Allen Ortiz, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"Some people have a sixth sense, but that’s not what Charlene had. Charlene had the fifth sense twice. She could smell twice as strong, twice as far."
From "June Weddings" by Joseph Millar, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"Suppose the virus was spreading out
over the heaving lungs of the South
and suppose the store
where they sell wedding gowns
stayed open during the quarantine..."
#Poetry
From "Revenge of the Limbo Babies" by Claire Oshetsky, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"Aunt Betty was a bitter divorcée with a serious drug problem and a restraining order that prevented her from wandering within a hundred-foot perimeter of her own children..."
From "Ode To The Shoulder" by Dorianne Laux @LauxDorian90482, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"I loved you before I was born, forming
inside my mother’s fist-sized sea, her inner
ocean, her little whale." #poetry
