A Short Story from Nick Kocz

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TTR is pleased to present a work of short fiction by Nick Kocz: “Rhoda, my sister, knows a place where tomatoes grow wild on vines that are as thick as Jack’s beanstalk. She’s been picking them all morning and has lugged a weathered bushel basket of them up to the room we share on the third floor of Old Man Trash’s boarding house. How they grow in the wild, I do not know, but she boasts it as proof of America’s natural abundance…”

Gary McDowell

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The Windows Are Always Open The body’s seasons never rest, so in death or in torture or in tongues—autumn.  The little boy huddled under Fischl’s table, sitting cross-legged, hair all in a mess, Hermaphrodite’s arm hanging over the edge, but in that painting, as in the summer that’s just passed, the windows are always open.

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Gary McDowell

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Mysteries in a World That Thinks There Are None Lately you’ve been dancing with all the other boys,      and by dancing I mean screwing, and by screwing I mean holding hands and sharing secrets: ants bleed      when they’re hurt, plants are capable of intent— will grow toward a support—and love is what happens      when a

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