
The Short List

Editor's Intro:
13 is a Magic Number
Stories
DeviantsHe finds you like they always find you: through a friend of a friend, a number scrawled on a ...
by Stephen Graham Jones
The Situations MAN, THE SITUATIONS YOU FIND YOURSELF IN. I was walking down the street with this ...
by Colin O'Sullivan
Poems
All That Poetry Isall that poetry is
| is just
| writing down what
| it looks like
| & sounds like
| from the mind of a
| ...
by Lester Allen
all the king’s horsesi am bloody sick of losing friends,
| in these years,
| the humpty dumpty thirties
|
| all trying to ...
by Jeffery Van den engh
AnathemaThrough the convex security screen
| is the solid, pink columned façade of investment ...
by George Anderson
been down ta Las Crucesbeen down ta Las Cruces
| one time, have you?
|
| down ta
| sundown wine
| color slide ...
by Mike Marcellino
Focal PlaneThe mirror is a salesman who lies shoddily.
| Empty and void save for diffusion. Is the light ...
by Hannah Levinson
Ode to Francis FarmerI finished the book with tears in my eyes
| The story of a beautiful actress
| Forced to self-implode ...
by Joseph Ridgwell
plastic it’s clearly
| alien life-form night
| at the grocery store,
| they bop around
| with faces dripping
| ...
by jason neese
safe for nowthe other day
| i saw firemen
| applying the | jaws
| of life | to an
| overturned truck
| on the ...
by Rob Plath
SearchlightsFrom the house, I can see searchlights
| silvering the sky. Their massive arcs
|
| are visible for ...
by John Grey
TreatmentThere are people in this world
| with enough energy
| to go to the post office,
| do laundry,
| go to ...
by Jeremy Hansen
Try A little TendernessWe are naked
| and the world is
| passing away
| and it is
| winter
| and we are
| crazy to be
| snow
| ...
by Andy Hall
Vacantthere's nothing more empty
| than a refrigerator w/o a door
| except for the windowless room
| where ...
by RC Edrington
VoraciousA wolf so skinny that his ribs show
| sits on the other side of the seesaw.
| He is so weak from ...
by Ryan Dilbert

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