Fall 2002, issue 9, Earth Residents of the year 2050
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This is issue number Nine, Fall 2002.

Your name, caramelized sugar in my mouth, your body, heavy humidity between my hands,
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In San José, Costa Rica, at seventeen, I fell for eloquent women I couldn't kiss,
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The night we thought we made you: standing in the shower, our kisses mingling with soap,
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Mother Watches Her Red-Headed Girl
- Allyson Shaw

Larva
- Mark Gibbons

Forgetting Lessons
- Alison Cole

Convergence
- Ken Rumble

Glass Trees, Glass Leaves
- Abraham Burickson

Ayer, Mass
- Melissa Chandler

Saguaro
- Elaine Kelly

Jesus In the Psych Ward
- Richard Jordan

Moment
- Christine Beyer

Underdressed
- Chris Semansky

The Real Life of Piggies
- Chris Semansky

The Cruelty of Foosball
- Matt Schumacher

Boiler
- Paul Hardacre

Earthquake
- Ken Rumble

House Painter
- Joel Van Valin

Descanso mío
- Lisette García

The Short Form
- Wendy Taylor Carlise

Periphery
- Helen W. Mallon

The River Has No Hair to Hold Onto
- Wendy Taylor Carlise

Arun
- B. R. Dionysius

Outskirts
- Stacie Barry

Suppose on a Shimmering Beach
- Wendy Taylor Carlise

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There was this: Darkness filtered through a gap in the drapes,
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Today is D-Day for Arun. His last day of job search training for the man from Afghanistan
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richard undoes my head speaking chekhov or dostoevsky & somebody's father was a gambler in a caravan
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