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Category Archives: Past
Abyss & Apex : Second Quarter 2012: Aurum
“Aurum” by Genevieve Valentine Brandon liked to walk past his engines at night and hear them humming, even though they were not yet working ; the first night the noise had frightened him—he had pushed too hard, he thought, … Continue reading
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Abyss & Apex : Second Quarter 2012: Sea Glass
“Sea Glass” by Jennifer Mason-Black Once, in a magazine, he’d seen pictures of birds retrieved from an oil slick, held aloft by anonymous hands as their eyes shone vacantly from a cesspool of blackened feathers. Until that morning, as he … Continue reading
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Abyss & Apex : Second Quarter 2012: Burst Mode
“Burst Mode” by Patrick Lundrigan Ida felt her elbows lock as the timeout started. In front of her the puddle of coffee from the dropped cup spread. She hated when visitors brought drinks and she hated getting a timeout … Continue reading
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Abyss & Apex : Second Quarter 2012: She’s Ultraviolet
She’s Ultraviolet by Jay Caselberg Glass and plastic. Glass and plastic and steel. I looked out across the city tracing the edges of darkness with my eyes. My window stared out over lean, unclean streets and alleyways. Mean Streets. … Continue reading
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Abyss & Apex : Second Quarter 2012: Stone Eater
Stone Eater by Brent Knowles Ongar stopped eating the pebbles on the eleventh night of his impalement. The badger that had collected them growled at him, frustrated and concerned, but Ongar was determined now to end his life. His … Continue reading
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Abyss & Apex : Second Quarter 2012: RE: The Dark One, In Case It Should Arise from Its Horrible Abyss
“RE: The Dark One, In Case It Should Arise from Its Horrible Abyss” by Luc Reid Thank you for standing in for me during my temporary leave. I know it’s not a duty you’d take on if you had … Continue reading
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Metacognition and the Writer Skill Set
Metacognition and the Writer Skill Set Have you ever heard of the Dunning–Kruger effect? This normal and human cognitive deficit means that in the areas we are least skilled at – let’s use writing skill as an example –we lack … Continue reading
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Entertaining Egrets in Limbo
Jennifer Crow Entertaining Egrets in Limbo Mist spools around dark stick legs as they pick their way along the shores of shadow. The tallest clatters his beak at me, white crest lifting, fanning. The others pick spirits from the fog … Continue reading
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Wormhole
Jason McCall Wormhole The shortest space between us is a cooperative heaven and I will dare reaching into the universe and its sly belly as long as you are on the other side _______________ Jason McCall’s debut collection, Silver, is … Continue reading
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Thesaurus (Not a Prehistoric Animal)
Thesaurus (Not a Prehistoric Animal) by Robert Borski Within the paper menagerie so strangely climed by pulp and ink, all manner of lexemes, cognates, and synonyms lurk, conveniently taxoned. Here verbs roar, nouns slither, and adjectives navigate the space between, … Continue reading
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