A Story In
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The (Mis)Fortune Of Having Been There
The shadows that lurk in the background carry the suggestion of prison stripes. Cary Grant picks a flake of cigarette tobacco off his tongue. This whole time the Ferris wheel has been spinning in the traveling carnival of his mind. He doesn’t try to reason with the gods but mocks their Greek robes. Then, as night burns to the ground, he discovers the perfect partner in Rosalind Russell, who spits words the way a machine gun spits bullets. She knows without having to be told that movies are just life enlarged. There’s no one to feed, nothing to feed anyone. From Guest Contributor Howie Good
Howie is the author of more than two dozen poetry collections, including most recently The Death Row Shuffle (Finishing Line Press), The Trouble with Being Born (Ethel Micro Press), and Gunmetal Sky (Thirty West Publishing).
Dangerous
A young couple ambled into a strip mall parking lot. Carla wrapped herself around Thomas.
“I’m making a point,” she said.
“Cool.”
“I want to show someone I’m in love.” He smiled. “An old man.”
He frowned, and Carla nodded toward a lone figure staring from across the street. She kissed Thomas hard, quick. “He found me on the dating site. We had coffee. I was, like, your picture was 30 years old! Think your Cary Grant charm would win me over?”
“Cary …?”
“George Clooney?”
Thomas pouted.
“But it’s you I love. Now go put a scare into him.”
From Guest Contributor Chris Callard
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