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Tennessee Williams: A Friendship
By Dotson RaderTwo years ago, Frank Fontis, the caretaker of Tennessee Williams’ property in Key West, was murdered. It was an especially vicious killing. He was shot at point-blank range late at night in the living quarters of a railroad museum he operated on the island. It was a curious affair.
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Pirpo and Chanberlan, Murderers
By Bernardo AtxagaNeither of them knew what “carte blanche” meant, but if, during the Spanish Civil War, someone had bothered to explain it to them, they would both have replied in unison: “That’s us! That’s what we’ve been given!”
From the Archive, Issue 173
Fiction
The Mind After Everything Has Happened
By Rowan Ricardo PhillipsPerpetual peace. Perpetual light. / From a distance it all seems graffiti. / Gold on gold. Iridescent, torqued phosphors. / But still graffiti. Someone’s smear on space. / A name. A neighborhood. X. X was Here.
From the Archive, Issue 206
Poetry
I Had a Man
By Dorothea LaskyToday when I was walking / I had a man tell me as he passed / That I was a white bitch (he was white) / And to not look at him / Or he was going to “fuck me in my little butthole”
