Autumn 2022

Jesus Is My Girlfriend And Jehovah is her dad. They both live in outer space. And this makes me glad. Tru Tru Vanilla Luv comes to me from heaven on…

96 How long have you been working in this medium? OT About ten years. I used to make diorama boxes, then I added puppets. Every box has a story. This…

No one—not her friends, business colleagues, or Wall Street rivals—ever guessed that the oversized briefcase that had become Thelia’s trademark was actually her husband. If she ever found herself in…

Our neigbors the Friedmans were the only Jewish family for miles around. Because I was “the heathen boy” and smart enough to pass for Jewish, I ran free on the…

The Veranda In the beginning there were five of us at the Veranda. LeGuard was our employer, a New Magician from somewhere in South America. I and the other three…

“Nearly the end of summer,” said the mistress of the tavern, to no one in particular, as she heaved another log on the fire. She gathered her shawl around her…

            Brooklyn and Yellow Boy were sitting under the great oak drinking beer. Relaxing. Watching the last of the laborers fuss in the sod fields. “This establishment used to be…

On May 21 Peter Lamborn Wilson died in his sleep, his home in Saugerties NY, at the age of 72. His work appeared in 96, and In Memoriam we reprint…

The noises woke me up a little past midnight. I lay in bed for at least an hour after that, staring at the ceiling and tossing around underneath the covers.…

Ottilie Harwood lived in one wing of Sedgwick Hall, and her widowed father lived in the other. She knew him mainly through traces: the scent of pipe smoke, a crumpled…

[The complete play, published on Amazon, has full notes for obscure references, which could not practically included in this serialization.] Scoundrel Johnnie’s office. Lots of telephones. Maps on the wall,…

“…this solitudethrough which we go is I.” De La Mare, Napoleon  The city is beautiful burning, I would stay to watch but the dogs are anxious, they know I am…

Aelita, Queen of Mars Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924) was based on a 1923 novella by Aleksey N. Tolstoy, a distant cousin of War and Peace author Leo Tolstoy. It…

Early Morning in July The morning to be came up Monday, and there you were,huddled between your shouldersover coffee. The toast was of the consistencyof dried steel wool. I smelled…