spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageAcross This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Six Thousand Dollars
Cole Depuy
Against All Odds
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Magnetic Resonance
Lisa Mulrooney
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane
Sabyasachi Nag
Sophocles
Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle
Charles Kell
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Tensions
Orange Bottles
Sean Singer
Terrigenous
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
orange socks
there are bad men at the top
Kate LaDew
When the Time Comes
Soothing
Cameron Morse


Orange Bottles
Today in the taxi an elderly man got out and left his pills. I hesitated and called for him, but he didn’t hear.
Imagining his stroke in the building’s lobby, or a cancer eating his liver in the elevator, I left the car and chased him down.
I was the copper snake on a bed of ropes. Then I remembered the Midrash said When we do good, we must do it joyfully.