Table of Contents


Views and Mechanics
Publisher's Note
Review of Down to a Sunless Sea
Review of Words of a Feather
Creative Nonfiction
Burning Men
By Gerard Sarnat
Integration
By David Caplan
Hands Across the Sea
By Jennifer Mazik
Poetry
I Can't Wait Until the Resurrection
By David Halliday
Dashing With You
By Mick Joyce
Island of Hong
By Mick Joyce
Fiction
The Price of Shoes
By Sandra M. McDow
Jeux d'Esprit
By Julio Peralta-Paulino
Feed Me, Pet Me
By Stephen Dorneman
The Lovely Peasant
By G. David Schwartz
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I Can't Wait Until the Resurrection

By David Halliday

I can’t wait until the resurrection and CNN runs out
of news. Teeth are brighter. Towels have more bounce.
Godzilla makes restitution to Tokyo. Snow is declared
one of the seven miracles of the world. America runs
out of bullets. Gay marriages are finally recognized
as the real cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Bankers are forced to crawl through the eye of a
needle. Friedrich Nietzsche gets his own talk show.
Quebec secedes from itself. Computers are given the
right to vote. Recycling becomes a national craze and
liposuction becomes mandatory for all patrons of fast
food restaurants. I can’t wait until the resurrection
and highways are paved over with grass. The assassins
of John Kennedy return from their tour of Orion and
Taurus. Louis Armstrong is canonized. Elvis retires
from his job as a greeter at Walmart. Someone comes up
with a cure for progress. And poets are forced to
climb down off their high horses and clean up the shit
they’ve left on the road behind them.