I was told that after the war a patrol of soldiers found me lying unconscious in an abandoned building in a town I could not remember. The soldiers brought me to a hospital where I was gradually revived and given medication for some wounds I had received. These were not gunshot wounds. When I awoke, I could not recall who I was or where I had come from. That is, I did not know if I belonged to this town, …
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Leopold Bloom Dreams of Kidneys & Sausages & Warm Human Flesh * Excerpt from James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
A while back we published “Molly Bloom’s Stream of Consciousness Ends in Flowers & Perfumed Breasts,” the soliloquy which closes the epic modernist tale Ulysses, by James Joyce. It seemed high time then to give some space to her poor cuckholded husband Leopold Bloom who, unlike his wife who prefers toast and cakes, has a taste for “the inner organs of beasts and fowls.” The below section opens the fourth episode, what’s known as the Calypso episode. It is our …
“Carvery Lunch on Sunday” and Other Poems by DS Maolalai
Carvery Lunch on Sunday the fish was fried so thick you could crack it like a drumskin, pulled tight and hammered very hard. and the gravy on her lamb was delicious – I took some. this was lunchtime on Sunday, and we’d had a tense weekend; what can I say? sometimes you fight a little when you don’t have other plans. and I had a sick cousin and wasn’t dealing with it properly, and she had some problems as well. …
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“Eating Up History in Colonial Williamsburg” * Essay * Kate Chamberlin
For three days in 1999,we walked and ate our way through Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia! We Stepped back into the 18th Century, an era when our forefathers were on the cusp of revolution. We walked the paths and ate in the taverns where the American Revolution began and our new nation was born. Colonial Williamsburg is In the center of one of America’s most historic triangles. just southwest is Jamestown, where English colonization took root in 1607; southeast is Yorktown, …
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Two Poems of Wizardry and Cookery by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
In the wizard’s lair Mariammachi rose with the sun – my Nana’s trusted right hand woman she cooked for a grateful household an enchantress with a culinary wand she could turn anything – the humble tapioca, the nondescript okra into Michelin star feasts. She would seat six year old me on the black volcanic rock of Nana’s hundred year old kitchen and I would study with wonder the paste of ash and water she scrubbed the clay pots with gutting …
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“The Whole Entire World Ever” * Fiction * Caitlin Hernandez
*We are delighted to present our first-ever fan fiction! Written in response to “Restoring the Effigy,” by M. Leona Godin. “The Whole Entire World Ever” is a prequel written from the point of view of Effie’s little girl Artemis on their mother-daughter trip to San Francisco. Leona admits to tucking in an embellishment or two amongst Caitlin’s beautiful words* Last year, I had the best hairstyles of anyone in first grade. Mom can do hair a bazillion different ways, …
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‘The Liars’ Asylum: Stories’ by Jacob M. Appel – Review
Some of the flora and fauna in Jacob M. Appel’s The Liars’ Asylum are real and others are made of painted silk and wire, but they are all as vibrant and memorable as the cast of characters whose lives they ornament. In this story collection published by Black Lawrence Press, Appel explores themes of love, disillusionment, and just getting along in the human condition, which is always difficult whether you are an orphan teen or a middle-age transporter of incapacitated …
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