Big Pulp's fall edition PDF includes 28 stories and poems, topped by a gorgeous photograph by Lisa Schnellinger.

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You draw me
Like a tractor beam
And set my heart to stun.
There is no escape;
(continue)

She said she forgot
Her smile in a
Drum without beat

I refuse to blame her
Since my whispers these days
Are without memory
(continue)

Seated at the window watching you
watch the visiting professor
lecture on Mohammed’s return
to Mecca, his faith a shield
more ornate than Achilles’,
I feel small and cross-threaded,
too misaligned to appreciate
intellectual grace you apply
to every formal situation.
(continue)