PDF Version Liquid sapphires tumble into my martini glass. My saliva is hot against my tongue as I reach for it, sticky like candy left to melt on the dash of a car. Cheers! Fellow patrons in matching goose-grey jumpsuits raise their glasses in salute. Their eyes, dirty like olives, remind me that here in […]

PDF Version She was shifty. She changed her name and appearance every time we met and reminded me of the new name with an unspoken frustration at my confusion. One time, it was Valerie. She was Valerie with a platinum blond bobbed wig and fuscha colored lipstick. Valerie was part intellectual, part flirt, with a […]

PDF Version With little ceremony, signs throughout the Lorillard campus of the former New Hampshire State University were changed recently to reflect the school’s new name, not to mention its new charter. “New Hampshire Smokers’ University provides a viable alternative to the radically smoke-free environment of the University of New Hampshire,” says Siggie Littman, the […]

PDF Version “Strange,” the man says. “I didn’t think you would come.” “And why not?” the woman asks. “Because… ” the old man ponders, “I thought you were afraid of us, and our kind.” “Who’s to say that I’m still not afraid?” “Who?” He asks incredulously. “Why you, of course. Your presence here tells us […]