V3:E7 JULY 2001

"Looking for Something" by Julia Spantchak

PROSE

Mike Fulton
The Greater New Orleans Sanitation Workers Strike

I remember the Christmas Eve when Auntie Marguerite was arrested. Someone from the twenty-third precinct called to say that she had been picked up in a rough neighborhood for loitering, and "something we don‘t have a name for yet." He said that the arresting officer was searching the book of ordinances to find a name for what she had done.

Sarah Elizabeth Sorenson
Water Music

What does the animal do after realizing that it could be free? Some make a mad dash for it. They foam at the mouth with the anticipation of freedom; they gnash teeth and strike out. They roar and stamp their feet. But most of them? Most of them slide the chains off and then lie down with their heads buried between their declawed paws.