Freelance Your Way to Poverty
by Con Chapman
There is a charity in Boston that helps the homeless by publishing a newspaper to which they contribute articles and poems . . .
Fiction
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Animals
by Robley Wilson
Once upon a time, my Uncle Laurence took me to see Roland Thibodeau fight. I was pretty young, but a boxing match in Scoggin was a rare event . . .
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Circumstances
by Camille Griep
By the time they pull you out of the car, the party is already half over. Harry from accounting has mown through the good cheese and the VP is opening . . .
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I Keep
by Ian Hilgendorf
The doctor say you won’t make it through the night, say your lungs are too frail and your heart ribbits like a frog. He say he sorry, then leaves me alone . . .
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Give Me Your Wife
by Tony Hoagland
because / I like her. I like / the signs of wear on her; / the way her breasts have dropped a little with the years; / the weathered evidence of joy . . .
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Bessie Arrowood’s Circle of Life
by Karen Paul Holmes
There she goes again, spinning / her wheelchair ’round the nursing home. / Two years, five thousand laps. So far. / With God’s help . . .
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Goldfish
by Lisa Cihlar
Does it matter that a migrating tern / is standing in the Fox River / with a goldfish in its beak? / The tern is a Caspian with a lovely black head / like the back-combed Italian . . .
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The Spoken World
by Brett Garcia Rose
Here are the rules: You must begin every sentence or phrase with a vowel. Any word beginning with a consonant is considered high risk . . .
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Redemption
by Michael O’Keefe
I want you to know two little known facts about me. One: I don’t like name-dropping. Hate it. Loathe it. Abhor it. Really. And I don’t like name-droppers either . . .
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Choose Me
by Erica Orloff
I read an interview with a Buddhist holy man in which he said a miscarriage is a sign that the soul of that baby-to-be had a change of heart, perhaps was not ready . . .
Du Jour
A Celebration of Modernist Poetry
In June, 1915 the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. T.S. Eliot began writing it five years earlier around the age of 22 and it was his first poem published outside an educational institution . . .
Gatsby
by Camille Griep
Like almost everyone in America, I first encountered the puzzle that is The Great Gatsby in high school . . .
2013 PEN/Faulkner Award Goes to Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Benjamin Alire Sáenz has won the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award, with a collection of short stories published by Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso, Texas . . .
Staff Picks: Treasures You May Have Missed
I asked the staff here in la grotte de Lascaux to name books they thought the reading public may have unwittingly passed by, whether because they’re gems that have gone unnoticed in the gravel or because they “deserve” to reach a wider audience . . .
A Letter to Nick Ut
by Samantha Storey
Of all the images to come out of Saigon, your photo of the naked girl running toward the camera is the iconic one . . .
Second Annual Flash Fiction Contest
The Lascaux Review is conducting its second annual flash fiction contest at www.lascauxflash.com.
Two hundred and fifty words. Two hundred and fifty dollars. Publication in The Lascaux Review. And the virtual medallion depicted here, for display on the winner’s online venues . . .
Help Wanted: Inquire Within
The Lascaux Review seeks enthusiastic and masochistic people to fill some part time positions. Volunteers can expect to read and evaluate slush, assist with contests, fundraisers, and other activities, and participate in planning and design . . .
Women’s Prize for Fiction
The 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Click on any cover to visit the book's Amazon page:
Winner:
Long List:
