'Postcard from Action Cat' by Eric Yoshiaki Dando.

Postcard from Action Cat.

Dear groovy people,

India is really beautiful, everything is really cheap and you only need about three dollars a day.

Remember, don't eat white flour and don't eat white sugar and don't smoke tailor made cigarettes - they are all poisoning you.

I am only eating fallen fruit and boiled water.

You are all living in a really negative, bad vibe place and you should all just come over and live here. Airfares are really cheap. I have the money I owe you. I have enough beans for everybody.

Action Cat.

"Eric Yoshiaki Dando is a twice failed novelist  / ericdando.com"

One Poem by Cherry Rao.

i called you my butter cookie
by cherry rao

i know them way back, packed
in the supermarket, stacks after stacks
labeled blue, each blue can
our big city's favourite, wrapped in red
spring's warmest gift.

it must have been your baby blues, or me
overwhelmed in a scent
so flattering, in a way
so sweet, it caters my court,
your ship.

crunchy touches, sugar on top, taste
on my tongue, the best flavor
unlocked - the best thing i know from you country -
all these golden pieces of loveliness
sink in memories.

"Cherry Rao, a 20 something, graduated from the University of Hong Kong, with majors in Fine Arts and English Studies. She has been working in art galleries and areas of arts education, cannot stop loving art, will never stop writing poetry. She writes therefore she is..."

Cherry Rao.

Three Poems from Tracey S. Rosenberg.

Widower.

When he returned to the office, pale
as a haunted child, we all peered at him
from behind our monitors like jailers
scanning the yard for an escape. His grim
blank glances made us wince and lower our eyes
and when anyone mentioned "my wife," the way
one does in the course of a married life,
we froze, each of us turning away.

Withdrawn in my cubicle, I searched in vain
for a way to reach him, to soothe the crack
or reveal a path through the blinding pain –
empathy, mutual rage, a suicide pact
or a mercy fuck.
                         As I emerged, he
shrank within the crowd, looking beyond me.


Commas.

He drives his words through
no stops
for red signs or thoughts
or breathing that hooks
curled to a close
when breath
leaves


Semper Fi.

I left work three hours early
to fuck an ex-marine
I'd met two hours before.

Peeling himself out of civvies
he looked scarred and strange.

When he groaned
my nails scored
his ring, already scratched.

"Tracey S. Rosenberg isn't Scottish, though the next sentence may make you think she is. She lives in Edinburgh, holds a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust, and has published in Poetry Scotland and New Writing Scotland. Her novel The Girl in the Bunker, telling the final days of Hitler from the perspective of Joseph Goebbels's twelve-year-old daughter, will be published by Cargo Publishing in July."

Three Spells by M.V. Montgomery.

THREE SPELLS
by M.V. Montgomery

spells for confounding developers

Summoning storm to spoil a groundbreaking
Luring a surveyor into a marshy area
Invisibility spell: blueprints, plats
Aversion spells—Home Depot, Lowe’s
Spells to shut down power and power tools
Nail- or staple-gun run amok spells
Locater spells for snakes, wasps, termites
How to cause blisters, sunburn
Spell to attract birds to roost in HVAC units
Spells to bring kudzu people to life
Calling out a Druid army
Opening a door to nowhere
Basic invocation: Brick-busting Demons


spells to progress rapidly in traffic

Summoning phantom passenger for carpool lane
Honking aversion spell for horns
Telekinesis spell for lane shifts ahead
Repulsion spell to reduce traffic congestion
Water-on-highway illusion for other drivers
Remote airbag-inflating trick (revenge spell)
How to “draft” behind cars that aren’t there
Locater spell: fairy roads not listed on MapQuest
Charms for improving gas mileage
Spells to shut down cell phones
Spell to make a headset sprout horns
Opening a lane to bliss
Basic invocation: Tire-changing Demons


spells for the prevention of aging

Conjuring funhouse and “skinny” mirrors
Reverse locator spell for former classmates
How to send rain of frogs to a class reunion
Transformation spell: age twenty
Transformation spell: age thirty
Spells for wrinkles, bags under eyes, chin flap
Exorcism: old man front-butt
Money spell: 401K, 403B, IRAs
Binding spells for children and grandchildren
Banishing spells for children and grandchildren
Using a pocket watch to stop time
Charms for reversing Nature
Basic invocation: Compliment-paying Demons

"M.V. Montgomery has been working on a new collection of short fiction titled Antigravitas, which will be published by Thumbscrews Press in 2011. His previous QVKnives work can be viewed here."

Massive Set of Drawings / Cartoons From Martin. G. H. Kamho.



"Martin. G. H. Kamho is a 23 year old engineering student from Namibia. I write poetry to channel my frustrations out of my mind. I write dark and erotic poems. In my spare time I enjoy painting, drawing and hiking."