Magnificent Octopus

"Homeless rifle dumpsters..." How do you parse that? Homeless can be an adjective or a noun. Rifle can be a noun or a verb. ...

I have been feeling better, alive, and moved this week. There is a returned pleasure. There is a returned tone of pleasure that in depressi...

In 1836, while rabbit-hunting on Arthur's Seat, a group of boys discovered 17 miniature coffins, each about 10 cm long, containing carve...

Canadian cover "Joy is an admirable goal." Juliet said. "Completely unobtainable, of course." I was so looking forwar...

But You are not without fault, O Season. I shall tell You wherein lay Your fault. You did not wish, O Season, to confine Yourself to the ...

Julie wanted eternal reincarnation; she wanted to experience all kinds of existences, and from time to time enjoy a luxurious and beautiful ...

The latest issue of Sad Girl Review is out! It's the handwritten issue, I think it's wildly beautiful and heart-wrenching, and I am...

Book acquired: Sludge Utopia , by Catherine Fatima. Our focus in writing is writing itself: writing as a predictive act; different forms of...

"And anyway," Juliet said, unable to suppress her irritation with Merton, "this isn't a Rembrandt, it's a copy by Ger...

This summer, a girlfriend asked me in hushed tones if I knew what squirting was, and do I squirt. I didn't know, and I don't (not ye...

Poland had, in its habitual way, once again ceased to exist. If you know anything about Polish history, that line should make you laugh. Or ...

She kisses his knuckles. One to eight. And then again, one to ten, because she forgot the thumbs. Bobby stops her there. When did these gest...

"Why are they so sad?" my daughter asks at the museum in front of Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise . Because they've been e...

A friend of mine, male, broached the subject of practicing Tantra with me and recommended The Heart of Tantric Sex , by Diana Richardson , a...

The bodies are fundamentally similar, no mystery there. But not the vaginas. Those are like fingerprints, in fact they could use those emb...

Some of the letters between Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetayeva reference Pasternak's "A Few Principles," which had been pub...

"He began his 'From One to Infinity' project in 1965. In the top left corner of the first canvas, he painted the figure one, th...

Sometimes I think: I must exploit the chance that I am still (after all!) body. I am forced to reconsider, again, my thoughts and feelings a...

Skagra adjusted the controls again. "When I was born, this is what Drornid had become," he said gravely. Romana turned her eyes ...

But Özgür never hangs up on Elaine because Elaine never lies like that. If she lies at all. Özgür's never caught her. Sometimes he wonde...