Buddha
by jim benz
Ben stood by the creek, skipping stones.
Under his feet, the ground was wet and muddy.
Despite a cool breeze, Ben wore no jacket.
Donna, his mother, always complained about this.
Haven’t you got any sense? she’d ask.
Afraid not, he’d reply.
Cramped Uptown
by Amy Temple Harper
34 ppg, Hard Cover, bound by Spork Press
Review by Travis Catsull
Cramped Uptown is the first book from Amy Temple Harper and it’s a thing of beauty and imagination. A very strange …
Film Review – Piranha 3D
by Ben MacNair
Bodies and Blood. Girls and Gore. Readers of the Daily Mail really should look away now. With a look back at the B Movies from the 1970’s, this 3D …
Austin music veterans Night Beats, and dynamic new comers The UFO Club released a 10″ split on The Reverberation Appreciation Society record label. For those of you unfamiliar with a “split” record it simply means …
The Smell of Rain
by Michael Albanese
When he peels out of the motel parking lot, he fails to notice how the rusty, dry dust kicking up from threadbare tires, shines in the light of the Utahan …
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Simple enough. It seems to lead us off a cliff of austerity or at least back around to the title of poem.