Mika Taylor The Uncertainty Principle I built my son a quantum booth from an old refrigerator box. I went all out, painted it up, glittered the top, strung rope for a doorknob. The inside was simple, matte black, no frills. I thought about adding buttons to press and pretend with, but the dark quiet […]
Michael Reid Busk Prince To paraphrase Winston Churchill’s words, used in a very different context: No one could ever forecast the actions of Prince; he was a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside a purple velvet enigma. Prince was a sparkly Sphinx, a funk-pop Mozart, a 5’2 totem of talent, a Christian sex god, the […]
Robert Hahn Confessions of God’s Perfect Child We went to church every Sunday when I was growing up, and I supposed other people in that little Indiana town were doing the same, but they were going to more ordinary and obvious churches. The other people in town were Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians, along with […]
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Martha Lundin Pulse River fishing requires a certain amount of tact. My father is the most graceful when he is on the river, a fish following his fly. He squats, hunches over his fly rod, and slowly drags the leader. His feet move delicately through the current as he tries to find the perfect […]
Peter Twal People Who Are Trying to Be Polite And you give me a living room tattoo in the dark of your portraitYou, a dog biting off my arm Soldier you, dressed in all black sight blurry waterboarding me and another and another and here, I’ve saved youthe last bite of this grenade I’m […]
Read More… from Peter Twal – “People Who Are Trying to Be Polite”
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Originally published in June 2013 Os Quais Ninth Letter is pleased to present for your listening pleasure “Quando Ela,” a track from the album pop é o contrário de pop by the Portuguese duo Os Quais, whose members are Tomás Cunha Ferreira and Jacinto Lucas Pires, author of the novel The True Actor, forthcoming […]
Patrícia Portela Fragments from the novel Going up not North First there was silence. The first time I spoke I was put in prison. This book is dedicated to… Well…that is a good question isn’t it? Maybe to everyone who helped to nearly kill me and then resurrect me. A little changed, but at least […]
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