White Shorts

April 2011 | back-issues, poetry | 0 comments

by Alan Britt Humans in white shorts are vulnerable yet strangely aggressive. What with their bare-legged dexterity, if you’re a bug there’s nowhere to hide. The hand is mightier than a horse’s tail, or hind claw hacking a basset hound’s floppy ear. Humans plan social events requiring white shorts. They enjoy Cricket, yachting expeditions,…

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Issue 98, April 2021

Burrdowning Press

60 pages, perfect bound

Print + eBook: $15.00

Featuring: Issue 98, published April 2021, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Tobi Alfier, Carter Ayles, Daisy Bassen, Hannah Story Brown, James Butcher, Michelle Cacho-Negrete, Robin B. Carey, Juan David Cruz-Duarte, Pernille AEgidius Dake, John Dorroh, Connor Doyle, Kim Farleigh, E Laura Golberg, Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon, Chris Innes, Zeina Lee, Laney Lenox, S Frederic Liss, Alice Lowe, Elizabeth Mayer, James McKee, Seojin Moon, Susan Notar, Colette Parris, Andrew Posner, Danny Rebb, Jim Ross, Eugene Shin, Julie Sonnek, Lesley Stanley, Richard Weaver, Kelley Jean White, Jean Wolff, John J. Zywar.