Spectrum Literary Arts Magazine: Fall 2010

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Lauren Olean

I used to own a beautiful house: 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, furnished basement, wrap-around porch. There was a dog. Purebred German Shepherd. Ideal for competitions. There was a wife. Soft hair. Nice boobs. Ideal for marrying. There were two kids. Girls, small ones. The future of the world. And I walked away from all of it. I don’t know if there’s a god But somebody ought to be thanked for that kitchen counter concussion. I like to think my humanity fell out of my ears for when I opened my eyes I realized I hated it all.

QUICK! BEFORE THE HORIZON OVERTAKES US!

BOB ARCTOR

I could not go to work nor read the paper nor kiss my wife This is where hundreds of thousands of years of evolution has brought us?

Caroline Malouse

There I sat, disgusted, revolted. There I sat, peeling off my oily skin plucking my organs out like fruit trying so hard to erase my demented brain.


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