Author: Travis Shosa
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Rogues
1 When I got the call, everyone on the team told me I would have to learn Canadian, which I think most of them meant jokingly, but Jordan mentioned some girl from Quebec he met on Omegle who spoke French. “I’m going to Saskatchewan,” I reminded him. “Yeah.” Coach asked me if I really wanted…
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Black Metal
The first time I tried to quit drinkingI bought what must’ve been a palletof seltzer. It became an obsession, trying to do nothingto my body,nothing bad anyway although eventually I ended up switchingover to the ginger-flavored onesfrom Wegmans, which I’m sure have more bad chemicals. Listeningto the early Darkthrone albumsfrom around when I was born,…
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Two Poems by David Hay
His blood is Still Two buckled brogues stepinto the eye of a giant squid.It blinks and the austere Austrian boyof 12 years with a blond quiff descendsapathetically into a drowning iris.The boy sinks into, then througha blackness, deep, womb silent,death accepting, grief nourishing.He slips down easily, like hemlock acrossA toboggan tongue.Inside the centre he witnesses…