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Ghost Wars
Poetry by Vince Gotera
In Ghost Wars, Vince Gotera, Editor at the North American Review, brings together a career of poetic considerations about the experience of war and its aftermath in this timely chapbook. Denise Duhamel writes "The poems in Ghost Wars are the tickers off the bottom of CNN's screen pushing out of the TV and flourishing like vines in our living rooms." Allison Joseph notes "Lively, compassionate, and intelligent, the poems of Ghost Wars are a necessary balm for our uncertain national psyche."
Ghost Wars is a signed and numbered edition limited to 500 copies.
$5.00 32 pgs. 8 1/2 by 5 1/2
ISBN 0-9742764-0-5
Laugh. Damnit.
Poetry by Ahkos
Feeling pretentious? Walk away now. The poems in this collection target poetic self-importance with humor and a bit of an edge. Formed in (and in response to) Boston's open mic scene, "Laugh. Damnit." will make you smile, or else.
$1.00 16 pgs.
Bad Men
Microfiction by Jim O'Loughlin
Four short short stories that made their debut at the Final Thursday Reading Series. They weren't originally intended to be part of a collection; it just happened that way. Find out what happens to the lounge lizard, the ex-con, the slacker student, and the serial monogamist.
$2.00 18 pgs.
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"For Van Morrison"
by Susan Rochette-Crawley
The world is full of mistakes, and you've made some of the most beautiful ones.
Like the time you said "Excuse me," as you bumped into that fellow who was headed into the convenience store to rob the place and shoot the clerk.
Or what about the time you were nine and needed a mortal sin to confess for your Easter Duty? Your friend said, "Well, you've been with your parents lately, haven't you?" And you said, "Yes." And she said, "So just say you've committed adultery." And because you made that joke, you had to say your penance alone in the pew in the church while you watched Mike, the sacristan, steal the chalice by putting it under his robe . You never told anyone. You wanted forgiveness more than you wanted to witness, so you told yourself that since he genuflected he wasn't doing anything wrong. He probably just needed to use the cup.
Yeah, you never told anyone about that one even though St. Jude in the stained glass rosette in front of you told you something had happened that should be despaired of.
What about the time Sally told you she kissed Bryce and you said, "Isn't that nice?" instead of asking her how it really felt, and if she was in love?
You walked down by the river a lot, that I remember. You were trying to stay out of harms way. But even there you disturbed that piece of slate that salamanders were nesting under. You watched the biggest one swim in circles while you tried to decide which bottle-fly to throw the rock at.
You disturbed everyone’s life, at least once, for a moment. You were in the way of the way while everyone went out of their way.
Just beautiful.
You never found out how it felt when Sally kissed Bryce. And if they were really in love.
You‚ love, made lots of mistakes, but that was your most beautiful one.
You left us something to wonder.
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