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Dead in the Water

By | 2018-09-05T12:19:54-07:00 September 6th, 2018|Categories: Issue 70: 06 September 2018|Tags: , , |

By Dick Eiden “German liners struggled heroically to emulate Wagnerian castles, English liners fell into the dark wood and leather habits of a London club.”                         - Melvin Maddocks, The Great Liners,  (Alexandria, VA, 1978)   The bow went down first, while the stern stood tall, slowly disappearing two and a half hours after the kissing [...]

Funhouse

By | 2017-02-23T12:05:54-08:00 January 26th, 2017|Categories: Issue 9: 26 Jan 2017|Tags: , , , |

By Dick Eiden A pity such a sparkling world fell into our clumsy hands, soiled with petroleum and blood, slippery as a swindler leaving town at night past rows of homes for sale, scrawny trees tied to stakes on the boulevard. A pity our shoes were untied, our feet not planted, we didn’t look up in [...]