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Ed Skoog

Dog Highway

“I lent a student a book last week, / and she found his
Missoulian obit, / phlegm-yellow.”

Obit as literary form.

Eireene Nealand

No Excuse for the Tension of a Possible Storm

“Haven’t managed to get a package off to my heroin addict.”
Cathi Murphy

The Man Who Ate Breakfast for Dinner

“He no longer used, but it was hiding in the shadow of every moment.”

The heroin addict of Nealand’s contribution as the narrator of Murphy’s in recovery. Seeking contributions exploring further connections between these pieces and additional points along the addiction and recovery time line.

Prompt 6

Ed Skoog

Pat Walleck’s Leg

“scraped up from when his girlfriend / shoved him down the long steel stairs.”
Kyle Simonsen

listen bro,

“we waited until Walleck fell and fuck, / man, that sound drug on for days.”

Seeking explorations of these coinciding incidents.

Prompt 19

James Wagner

from Reynolds—part one of Claims of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

“wonders if he should say: “we meet so often, under
such strange circumstances, maybe we should begin having sex.””
John Cleary

dear jack,

“cancel me from the unadvantagetakers.”

Seeking explorations of the overlap of these persons as divulged through these coinciding incidents.

Prompt 11

Kyle Simonsen

listen bro,

“her bags are in / the top drawer of the armoire but /
she’s on the dark side now.”
Paul Hardacre

from The river is far behind us

“she’s on the dark side . . .’”
Joanne Tracy

Queenie

“Mint marvels for my suitcase, emergency food to go with my emergency clothes.”

Seeking explorations into the possibility of character overlap in these contributions by Simonsen, Hardacre, and Tracy.

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