Drinking Brandy With The Former Home Secretary Of England by Cassandra Troyan
from BIG BILL AND THE LONELY NATION by Cassandra / Cody Troyan
cover design by Sara Drake
read by Richard Chiem, featuring Ana C.
MI ÚTERO QUIERE SALIR DE AQUÍ
Intento razonar, pero no quiere obedecerme.
Dice que ha sido privado de sus sueños. Y yo contesto que no: te has equivocado.
Te estás confundiendo, tú no eres yo.
Y mi útero dice cómo no voy a ser tú,
soy parte de tu cuerpo.
Intento entonces explicar a mi…
$4 is burning a hole in that pair of sweatpants you’ve been wearing for the past week and a half
had a feeling on tap
but a creation sub-
dued
still on par
it’s like
*
“but like Maugham’s Mirriam you are hard above the neck;
voice salted and manner typical of your class when not
trying to impress
your response to my entirely well-intentioned amusement
was the understanding and…
Southpaw (A SHORT STORY)
I think I read somewhere once that ants act more like one life form than individuals. Then I wondered if we’d be better off like that. Those t-shirts we wore in elementary school, depicting kids dabbed in every color of the human palette holding hands around the globe. I’m thinking of a spontaneous broad-brush hegemony. Where each and every one of us perpetuate ideas singularly for the ultimate purpose. The Queen. God save her. I heard God is dead. Talk about self-fulfilling prophecy. Where are my chaos theorists at? They’re too busy tying their shoes to prevent 2012 from coming.
Instead we have words. Colloquial limitations. Gilded abstractions. And that certain intuition and drive and work ethic that gets the job done in a jiffy. One time I spilled the hardboiled eggs of my BLT cobb salad all over a fast food restaurant’s carpet and felt good for appointing jobs.
A six-year-old HIV carrier, has been living alone since his parents died of AIDS. The boy, known as Ah Long, does his own washing, cooking, studying and raises chickens. He lives in his parents’ house at the foothill village of Malu Mountain in Liuzhou in Guangxi Province, China. Ah Long has an 84-year-old grandmother, who visits him quite frequently and cooks for him despite not living with him. A local primary school was forced to turn down his application under pressure from parents of other children. Due to his complicated family background, the Welfare Department has declined to take care of the boy. He receives 70 yuan of subsistence allowance per month from the local civil bureau. (more details)
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