Source text: Fascinating Womanhood by Helen Andelin, originally self-published in 1963. These erasures were composed upon pages of the mass-market paperback, published by Random House, 1982. See more poems from Issue 19.2, including two more erasures by Huffaker, by purchasing a copy in our online store. Digital copies only $5
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Gliding like giant fish past our villa, sometimes Dubai’s city buses, with their whirring, unsettle me—the long sigh of the air conditioning let out as exits unfold their mechanical arms and passengers spill onto the sidewalk. When we first arrived in the United Arab Emirates eighteen months ago for my husband’s job, I tried hard …
Wendy can’t help hovering outside the den when her fourteen-year-old daughter’s older friend Harris first comes over to play video games on a Saturday. They’re talking about a woman named Cora Goodnight, all over the local news for killing (probably) her three husbands and her pastor. The church-directory photo posted with each telling of her …
. . . It started on a Monday. That much you remember clearly. The Old Man was due back from his tropical vacation, and HR had issued a reminder that he could be “mercurial” in times of transition. You’d all been on the business end of his black moods a time or ten, so by …
We are honored to share and celebrate our nominations for this year’s Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best Microfiction, Nina Riggs Poetry Award, PEN/Robert J. Dau Award, and Best Spiritual Literature.
