The shadow of the valley is a placeholder for the valley, a reminder that a body stands between those stands of bleachers, or this stand of trees or the neighborhood watchers standing around watching birds fly back and forth from their nests to the gardens in every Westwood neighborhood, all the while casting shadows that somehow don’t look like birds but like people wondering…

ALL RIGHT, Joshua Waughop the hunchback dwarf had a real limited set of magical powers he could do. I mean real limited…

We wanted a child but no child came. When Joan suggested the procedure, I wasn’t so sure. It didn’t seem natural…

A poem and cut-out by Matthea Harvey.

Tales: alchemical. / Criticism: polemical. / Subjects: tarn, tomb, raven, Ulalume…

The girl walked slowly into the park. She had a heavy sack on her back. When she reached the man’s gravestone, she swung the pack from her shoulder…

The radio animals travel in lavender clouds. They are always chattering, they are always cold…

In June 1989, the worst railroad disaster in Soviet history occurred in the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic near the village of Ulu-Telyak…

         [FLOOR]          In the foyer: a walnut floor. The cracks near the door create a triangular pattern. There are…