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A-B-A

May 30, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Nicholas T. Brown

Juan Manuel Ortega Alfonso Rodolfo Guererra rolled into town during the driest weeks of August, the dog days, when even children stayed indoors because it was too hot to play outside. He had traveled for weeks across the desert, stopping at whatever villages he encountered, but no place had given him reason to stay…

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A Murmuring

May 29, 2013/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Cameron Aveson

When all we have is song to fill the space between us, the feather of each note, frail flight of melody, a flock murmuring from my chest, I let go, sing distance and space into shapes you might hold in your mind, birds that form, fragment, coalesce and flee. This moment of rest, a dream, […]

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Legs

May 29, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Andrew Battershill

The first thing that anyone would notice was the sign. It was supposed to be a tourist trap, but nobody seemed to have put much effort into attracting visitors. The sign was just a rotted out piece of wood lying flat in the grass, a broken off stump planted in the ground next to it. […]

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Smith Hill

May 28, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Cathleen Calbert

Gabrielle had never noticed how loud Friday mornings were. Now that she slept on the couch, she felt the trash truck barreling through the walls, destroying her home. Bolting upright, she’d hear men laugh, cans tossed, the truck move on. After a few weeks of fearing she might wake to the front bumper of the […]

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A Brief Suspension of All History #2

May 28, 2013/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Darren C. Demaree

I have plans on the thick part of my hands & when they flush with un-tender flesh, build like a mountain risen to escape my own bones, you will see the structures behind me. All of them speaking of my shoulders. All of them whole & personal & held fast to my own Ohio. Darren […]

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Yard Sale

May 27, 2013/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Daniel Sundahl

Standing with my friend in his garage, We look at things left over: Hose connections, extension cords, Kitchen utensils, power tools, Twenty years of memorabilia. His house has sold, Not for a high price; He’s glad to be out from under it. Another friend, Richard, will take his dog. Somehow, I say, I always thought […]

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Pockets, Long Enough

May 27, 2013/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Gayle Brandeis

My mother used to say
if she ran out of money,
she would walk into the sea.
Just drive to the beach
and walk into the water,
keep walking until the ocean
swallowed her up…

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The Postcards

May 27, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Jacqueline Doyle

On a chilly Saturday morning in October, Donald Shieffer found a mysterious postcard in the mailbox at his townhouse in Cincinnati. It pictured a swan in flight, white wings a blur, taking off from the surface of a gray pond edged with snow. The message read, “Poetry is made in the mouth.” The card had […]

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The Recluse

May 26, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Tristen Matthew Fournier

Minny Glorious was well aware that many fervent readers of her client, Billy Benson, would probably apply the term “recluse” to the author’s public persona. While the term wasn’t used explicitly (perhaps out of politeness) in the letter that currently sat on the edge of her dark mahogany desk, she nevertheless read the official fan […]

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What the Atheists Speak Of

May 26, 2013/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Alejandro Escudé

The nitrous cloud goes berserk In the nineteenth century, when the toads Were writers thinking up Horror—she wounds me With her pale skin and liquid midsection, Scarcity is scarce, and I take it from there, holding gripes, The papers tell it, how the Pope goes pop Into a new old castle and the people go […]

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Grapefruit

May 25, 2013/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Bryn Homuth

My father held a grapefruit – the yellow-orange rind blending with the skin of his palm. Two knives on the cloth – one small, a bent edge of serrated teeth to dissect the flesh, the other long, broad, with a smooth blade. He held the larger, rested it on top of the fruit before a […]

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The Yin-Yang Market

May 25, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Khanh Ha

I sip my black coffee, peering up at her. I have offered her a cup of café phin―slow-drip coffee. She palms the cup with both hands. Head lowered. The cup raised to her lips. First sip. Gingerly. Her brow furrowed. It’s so peaceful around here, she says, her partially-tilted face leaning into the morning light […]

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Christ v.

May 25, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Mark Maynard

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF SAN FRANCISCO JESUS CHRIST, Plaintiffv. JOHN DOEs, JANE DOEs, and THE HOLY SEE, THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION, THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF AMERICA, THE EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF AMERICA, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, LAUGHING PANDA INDUSTRIES, et al Defendants   Civil Action No. COMPLAINT Preliminary Statement 1. […]

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Tiny Town: Mixed Media

May 25, 2013/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Caitlin McCormack
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Peter Riva, Literary Agent

May 25, 2013/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2013 / Interviewed by Lise Quintana

Riva’s agency, International Transactions, Inc., specializes in a holistic approach—one that both nourishes its connections to the publishing and entertainment worlds and closely shepherds its authors through the world of publishing. Riva brought decades of experience in the publishing industry to Antioch in December with his lecture on the business of writing. Lunch Ticket Editor in Chief Lise Quintana spoke to Riva about his views on the publishing industry, where it’s heading, and how new authors can become part of it.

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The Sand Dollar

May 25, 2013/in Summer-Fall 2013, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Alyssa Erichsen

“There are mermaids in the water,” Pa always began. This was the preface to my brother’s favorite story. Pa would tell us how, if you were still and silent long enough at the edge of the dock, you could spy the shimmering green-gray of their fish tails as they flashed and disappeared. He said this mysterious disturbance…

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The Viewing

May 25, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Mary Zelinka

My car speeds north along the nearly deserted two-lane stretch of Highway 101 towards Waldport. My muscles are stiff from my hike up Cape Perpetua, and I’m anxious to get back to the house where I am staying for a hot shower. The sky is grey with pending rain and the ocean crashes against the rocks…

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Dover, Delaware

May 24, 2013/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Adam Crittenden

This is the day her brother has a relapse and shoots heroin. It’s worse than the days when they were young and he would run with scissors on purpose. It’s worse than the days he would chase the neighbor’s fat cat, chucking clods of dirt. It’s worse than when he would come home with cuts […]

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Heimlich

May 24, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Anne Lévesque

The thing about Danny MacIsaac was that he was average. Average weight,  average height, average brown hair. He played hockey and baseball but he was never captain of the team or Most Valuable Player or anything. At school he half-slumped in the middle of the middle row, as if to mirror the position of his […]

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Driving with Fire Sauce

May 24, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Peter Clarke

[flash fiction] The color red possesses terrific power. Take a pair of scissors and cut something open: a pillow. Even though pillow stuffing is usually white, if you cut with a certain style and vigor, you will see red. Put this into a political context. Assuming you’re dealing with people who aren’t color blind, senile, […]

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The Arf Thing

May 24, 2013/in Summer-Fall 2013, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Val Howlett

The counselor’s room is never still. It is churning pipes and an hour-off ticking clock and Friends Care! posters flapping on paint-thick walls and a heat of stories pushing themselves forward, tangling around each other. The students wiggle, fidget, shake in the armchair, as if fighting off their own words. *     *   […]

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Kazim Ali, Poet

May 24, 2013/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2013 / Interviewed by Kolleen Carney, with Michael Passafiume

Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and raised in Canada and the United States. He received a BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Albany-SUNY, and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. He is the author of several collections of both poetry and prose, the most recent […]

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CancerLand

May 24, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Marissa Cohen

Fact: My hands are too short to reach mom’s cancer. How Cancer Changed Me: My logic is the safest thing I have. I write lists about logic. I make everything neat and ordered. There is a careful, measured safety in lists. I can see how far they stretch. Nothing sneaks up on me. I love […]

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Vignettes: Collages

May 24, 2013/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2013 / by John Paul Gardner
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Take It From Me, Kid, I’m a Clown

May 23, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Christopher Linforth

Listen kid, I know it’s your birthday and all, that you only turn ten once, and that this is your special day, but, come on, you’re crying over your balloon animal because you wanted a giraffe and you got an Irish Wolfhound, which you say looks retarded, and that I’m retarded; please, give me some […]

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Letter of Resignation

May 23, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Kenneth Nichols

[flash fiction] To: Doctor Galen Alber Dean of the Occupational Sciences Department Ledford University Doctor Alber— I do not regret to inform you that I refuse to work with you any longer on your repulsive project. No need to lecture me about the consequences of this decision; I’m happy to withdraw from my research appointment […]

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No One Ever Told Me

May 23, 2013/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Lisa Mangini

that an MRI sounds a bit like avant-garde dance music, or one of those key chains I had as a kid, where I’d press a button and it would shriek out some distorted beeps and static to mimic a machine gun, or a bomb falling from far away. No one told me that I should […]

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The Beetle and the Wind

May 23, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Melba Major

On the morning of June 26, 2000, I awake with a weird pain in my right side. I stretch, take a deep breath, and assess the situation. No other symptoms. “I must have slept funny,” I think, as I take my dog Lancelot out to pee. It’s a Friday. A glorious Vermont summer day. My […]

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Portfolio: Mixed Media

May 23, 2013/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
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MANDEM (Maize Arendsee and Moco Steinman-Arendsee), Collaborative Artists

May 23, 2013/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2013 / Interviewed by Ashley Perez and Audrey Mandelbaum

In its last issue, Lunch Ticket featured an image by MANDEM—a collaborative team that includes Maize Arendsee and Moco Steinman-Arendsee. Intrigued by their work and process, Visual Arts Editor Ashley Perez decided to run an interview with the pair in the current issue. MANDEM describes itself as “Mythpunk,” a moniker that combines “Steampunk” (a retro-futurist […]

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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

How to Kill a Cat, or How to Prepare for CATastrophe

March 10, 2023/in Blog / Meghan McGuire
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The Night I Want to Remember

December 16, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi
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From Paper to the Page

November 18, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Annie Bartos
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Point Break & Top Gun Are More Than Homoerotic Action Movies

March 3, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Michaela Emerson
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Mending the Heart and Slowing Down: Reintroducing Myself to Mexican Cooking

October 7, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

On Such a Full Sea Are We Now

March 17, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Jemma Leigh Roe
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The Russian Train

February 24, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Cammy Thomas
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Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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