By Elizabeth Shack The hermit crab outgrows his shell and ranges across the ocean floor searching for a better home so he can grow a little more. Imagine the crabby billionaire hoarding the best and biggest shells while other crabs roam, all exposed without secure, protected cells. One crab has an enormous home; the less [...]
By Matt Pasca Lobsters mate for life—on menus they are called lobster. And all’s fair in fowl: duck called duck, chicken chicken—the winged as unrenamed as the sea. But cow & pig & deer, stars of the big screen as Elsie & Babe & Bambi— we unmammal their meat with abstraction: Beef. Pork. Venison. At [...]
By Ellen Girardeau Kempler Disembodied. Disenfranchised. Disconnected. Disassociated. Disowned. Disliked. Distained. Disrespected. Disregarded. Disparaged. Disgraced. Dismissed. Discarded. Disavowed. Disqualified. Disappointed. Disheartened. Distanced. Disbarred. Dislocated to: Dis City, The Inferno, Sixth Circle of Hell, Not in My Backyard, Planet Earth 00000 (Do not forward. Do not return.) Disappeared. Called “a timely and powerful selection of [...]
By Laura Gail Grohe When you see me, if you see me, I am your worst fears found form. “Pardon me sir, but could I have a dollar for food?” You rush by me studying your cuticles so you don’t have to see me. “Excuse me miss, do you have any spare change?” When I [...]
