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DOG
DAYS by Robert Levin I
wanted to be invisible. Out of nowhere, with, I
swear, nothing in my history to predict it, I'd
done something people regard as sick and disgusting
and I wanted to disappear. I should say that at
first I wasn't so sure what I'd done was all that
awful, and I certainly didn't concur with the character
judgment implicit
read 
JAGGED
EDGES by
Marc Lowe
She sat on the bed and watched. She watched them
through a narrow chink in the wall. The boy had
his arm around the girl. He was whispering something
into her ear. The girl giggled and covered her mouth.
He moved closer. She pushed him away.
He tried again. She refused him again.
He stopped smiling read
POETRY
by Kent MacCarter We
clang inside the attractive hours of night –
that space we bring and blow smokes in each other’s
face. Our hair lets drop a towel for a shower, quick
With beer we’ll rinse away remains of purity.
Yes, we’re cheats in velvet sins, near dawn,
and fuel up a getaway car on one very, very dear
condition read
REVIEW
- THE WORLD AT WAR AND THE IDIOT, by DOSTOEVSKY
by
Dan Schneider It
was not long after my family moved into the very
first home we had ever owned, in our line's history,
that I recall watching, with my dad, a really good
television show called The World At War, which recounted
the history of the Second World War. For my dad,
born in 1916 read

POETRY
by
Angus
Gorberg Chlorophormed from the very breaths
That birthed them Subway trains hiss like snakes
Sidewinding through familiar passages. A chaise
for the chase Not too many ticks from now To the
next day But enough to turn loose All the splinters
and dirt Recycled through vocal chords The irreconcilable
news flash from my mother that, “You’re
not so special!” Cautioning me not to make
too much of the standing ovation just hours earlier
read

SORRY,
BUKOWSKI
by PL George
POETRY
by Steve Kilbey
REVIEW
of Marcel Proust’s Remembrance Of Things Past
by Dan Schneider
LITERATURE
by Tantra
Bensko
POETRY
by Justin Lowe
LITERATURE
by Robert Smith
REVIEW OF ZANESVILLE /Interview with the author
Kris Saknussemm by Brentley Frazer
POETRY
by Carol Novack
POETRY
by Julie Doxsee
POETRY
by Ian McBryde
POETRY
by Brian P. Katz
POETRY
by R.M.Engelhardt
POETRY
by Francis Raven
POETRY
by Julie Beveridge
POETRY
by Graham Nunn
REVIEW
of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables by Dan Schneider
POETRY
by Kevin Gillam
POETRY
byMegan
Volpert
THE
NEXT TOLKIEN by Adrian Gibb
OUR
NEW GEOGRAPHY by Michael Depp
A
Reinterpretation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime And
Punishment by Dan Schneider LITERATURE
by Kenji Sirator
Review
of Shusaku Endo's Deep River by Dan Schneider
LITERATURE
by Rodney Nelson
POETRY
by Graham Nunn
Recent
Articles Archive
POETRY
by David Bruckman
MUSIC
- Everybody Loves Irene
REVIEW
by Dan Schneider
THE
ALLEY CAT by Robert Smith
POETRY
by Stephen Oliver
NARROW
STREET by
Zdravka Evtimova
POETRY
by Iain Britton
POETRY
by Rochelle Ratner
RECIPE
FOR EXTINCTION by John Kaminski
POETRY
by Libby Hart
THE
PAPER ME by Wayne H.W Wolfson
THE
ACID GONG TEMPLE AWAITS -REVIEW by Robert Lort
NOT
ANOTHER SENTIMENTAL STORY by Ivanka Deneva
CITIZEN’S
ARREST by John Gorman
WHAT
IS THE RELEVANCE OF ‘ART’ ? by
Niko Vuletic
HOW
TO MAKE A BABY by Robert Levin
SOME
TALES by Antony Riddell POETRY
by Ashok Niyog
POETRY
by David Bruckman
MUSIC
- Everybody Loves Irene
REVIEW
by Dan Schneider
THE
ALLEY CAT by Robert Smith
POETRY
by Stephen Oliver
NARROW
STREET by
Zdravka Evtimova
POETRY
by Iain Britton
POETRY
by Rochelle Ratner
RECIPE
FOR EXTINCTION by John Kaminski
POETRY
by Libby Hart
THE
PAPER ME by Wayne H.W Wolfson
THE
ACID GONG TEMPLE AWAITS -REVIEW by Robert Lort
NOT
ANOTHER SENTIMENTAL STORY by Ivanka Deneva
CITIZEN’S
ARREST by John Gorman
WHAT
IS THE RELEVANCE OF ‘ART’ ? by
Niko Vuletic
HOW
TO MAKE A BABY by Robert Levin
SOME
TALES by Antony Riddell
POETRY
by Ashok Niyog
ALL
CONTENT 2004-2001 ARCHIVED AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY
OF AUSTRALIA - ALL LINKS BELOWWILL NOT WORK CLICK
HERE FOR THE COMPLETE ARCHIVE
KOUNTDOWN
by Rhys Burley Clark
LITERATURE
by Dan Schneider
Earthed,
Nineveh & Ephemeron, Steve Kilbey by Robert
Lort
DISCONNECTING
by Robert Smith POETRY
by Paul Hardacre
À
la Recherche des Têtes Perdues by Alan
C. Baird
BRILLIANT
FUTURE by Brentley Frazer and Fakie Wilde - THE
BUTCHER'S SAGA PART 2
POETRY
by Paul. A Skec
POETRY
by Mandy Beaumont
FTA
CHANCE by Niko Vuletic
POETRY
by Jeffery S. Taylor
'AL
QAEDEA' IS A MANUFACTURED INTELLIGENCE FRONT
by Kawther Salam
BACK
ON MY OWN TWO FEET by David Smithyman
URDOXA by Kane X. Faucher
HARVESTMAN
by Rodney Nelson
POETRY
by Maurice Oliver
POETRY
by Ernest Williamson III
POETRY
by Arne Sjostedt
Tactics,
Psychosis and Techno-Contaminants by Matthew
Fuller
POETRY
& VISUALS by August Highland
AMERICAN
CALIGULA by Raymond Ponziny
LAOS
- A FLASHBOOK by Severin Minus Se7en
WHEN
PACINO'S HOT, I'M HOT by Robert Levin
POETRY
by Sheila Murphy
THE
WORDMAN - CHAPTER SIX by Justin Lowe
Tales
from the Imagination of Kamal Talvar by Asim
Rizki Kamal
POETRY
by Brett Dionysius
POETRY
by Todd Swift
POETRY
by Robert Lort
An
Existential Psychoanalysis of the Republican Character
by Noah Cicero and Berice Mullins
POETRY
by Graham Nunn
LITERATURE
by Robert Smith
POETRY
by M.T.C Cronin
OUR
SOLAR SYSTEM IS NO ACCIDENT by Ted Twietmeyer
POETRY
by Alicia Bennett
CUPID
STORY by Gerald R. Ford
IN
ORBIT AROUND MARS by Brian Willems
POETRY
by Adam Pettet
HIDING
IN PLAIN SIGHT by David Roblee
POETRY
by Papa Osmubal
IS
ALLAH YAHWEH? by Gary Sloan
NARRATIVE
AS DEVOTION by G.David Schwartz
FREE
JAZZ The Jazz Revolution of the '60s by Robert
Levin
POETRY
by Tom Sheehan
POETRY
by Guillaume Destot
POETRY
by Lyn Lifshin
OLD
PRESIDENTS & NEW THEOCRATS by Gary Sloan
FOR
THE RECORD by Margarita Meklina
TRANS
DOPAMINE by Anne Boyer
POETRY
by Ian McBryde
INTERVIEW
WITH CARLTON MELLICK by Robert Lort
JUNE,
by Stoyan Valev
The
Enigma of Bullysdodo by Mark Davies
IT’S
CALLED WAR by Drazan Gunjaca
BABEL
by Ovidiu Bufnila
THE
SATELITTE PROGRAM by Robert Smith
POETRY
by August Highland
POETRY
by Michael Standaert
POETRY
by Terry Lee
POETRY
by Michael Farrell
Everything's
all right in The Middle East by Robert Levin
Free
Trade for Who? by Niko Vuletic
Dionysus
in the USA by Paula Bardell
Poems
by Adam Murray
Poems
by Wendy Morgan
Poems
by Les Wicks
Case
Analysis of Some Humans by Noah Cicero
Poems
by Dee Rimbaud
Poems
by Maurice Oliver
Poems
by Andrew Lundwall
Poetry
by Paul Hardacre
Poems
by Graham Nunn
Mike
Parr & Adam Geczy: All Swaddled Up reviewed
by Robert Lort
What
Nietzsche's Mother never taught him by Robert
M Smith
Poems
by Mandy Beaumont
Poems
by Duane Locke
Poems
by Janice M. Bostok
Opinion
piece by our Arts Ed. Niko Vuletic
Chasing
Maps by Barbara Jela Christo

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