Issue #1, Spring 2003

Contents

Look At Me by H. Courreges LeBlanc

The Intelliblender by Jan Steckel

Democracy dor Dummies by Rob Stephenson

Lucifer May Be Legion; We Were Only Two by Trebor Healey

Short Circuits by Ryan Kamstra

Frenzy by Forrest Aguirre

Two Postcards from I-90, West of the Plains by Hanne Blank

Thunder & Floof by Lydia Swartz

This Is the Kind of Femme I Am...Honey by Dossie Easton

Instructions for a Lamarckian Sperm Donor by Steven Schwartz

The Sorcersoft Story by Charlie Anders

Mutant Powers #4 by Matthue Roth

The Perfect Moment by Cat Tailor

I Fear The Migration by Valeska Keller

Scarlet Stream by :/ Bachu

from "Short Circuits" by Ryan Kamstra:

"Understand until the age of fifteen my mother had raised me as a girl. I would have likely continued to believe this had it not been for an encounter under an offramp with a boy in the car in which he spent nights circling the subdivisions.

My mother spit in a clump of silicone and fashioned me in her hand. I still retain the warmth.

He told me the whole night he loved how thin I was. He let his hands run all over and I wanted him there. It was enough that I had a bra on and heąd seen it and Iąd seen myself in a mirror and known. I put my legs up over the glove compartment while he felt the back of my neck.

I spent my fifteenth year dying to lose my virginity. Typical, I suppose. I wore my hair short and there were a lot of rumours going around that I was a dyke. It was funny the simple changes that came over me when I put on make up. When I willfully tried to look more feminine.

I was better as a girl. I mean I was a bit butch for a girl but I knew who I was. I liked Echo and the Bunny Men. INXS. I wore smokerąs gloves, ones with the fingers cut out.

I was dying for a boyfriend. I felt like a thousand lockers thrown open and the football team laid flat. Cheerleaders immolating themselves over the void of New England faith.

It didnąt help that I was a tough ass. Growing up on the edge of things I had no choice. I killed off arms thrown easily around me with the mouth of a smartass prick. I continue to do so.

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