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�� Volume VII, Issue II

..:: POETRY ::..

  • Ed Steck
  • Iain Britton
  • J.D. Nelson
  • Adam Strauss
  • John M. Bennett

  • ..:: PROSE ::..
    ..:: OTHER ::..

    ..:: ETC ::..
    �� Contributor's Notes

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    Poetry


    from Unscience Fictions
    Richard Kostelanetz

    �����������In memory of Chuck Jones

    Impossible fictions are inherently unscientific.

    All facts in this story are false.

    One charm of Chuck Jones's classic cartoons
    was watching anthropomorphic animals
    behaving unscientifically.

    Over the Internet, where everyone could read it,
    she published a narrative relating in persuasive
    detail how she had dove into a river and, after
    battling rough current, disappeared.

    This story is not about kidnapping but
    abduction.

    Thousands of books she claimed she wrote even
    though no one ever read any of them.

    What looked like a gorilla spoke English.

    She cartwheeled from one end of Manhattan to
    the other.

    No mammal, it capsized a ship before
    disappearing into the sea.

    Only when its narrator dies can this story
    resume.

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