A proper (but never prim) introduction to Melic in Heat. C.E. Chaffin takes on Harold Bloom's tumescent tome, The Western Canon: "Jerome's Vulgate, Luther's translation and the King James Bible are the only works that have influenced our culture and tongue more than Shakespeare, and Bloom's ignorance of this fact I find as shocking as he does the ethno-gender-politico-centric Balkanization of traditional literary criticism."     go now

Love Among the Apricots     Hypersexuality Desire     Supermarket Slut Hungry     Curfew Amusement Ride

	Veteran   —Don Taylor			The Crack   —Jeannine Shackelton
	Body Language   —Judy Thompson			Sugartit   —Sherry Saye
	Dante: the other day you asked me ...   —Peter Anson
	Wolf   —Arlene Ang
	Coming Home   —Andrea Sherwood	Lost   —Sharon Kourous
	Past Maribor, Yugoslavian Mountains at Sunset   —Duane Locke	The Wasp Nest   —Ric Masten

The Act     By Germaine Shames The car zig-zagged down the road as if running on gin instead of gasoline. Into His Own Hands     By Mycroft Cramden Sales technique #4: Always dismiss the customer first so they feel rejected. He recognized the gambit but could not fight the emotion.		Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?   —David Curtis & J. Snell He, Hot Twat Rhymes   —Mike Topp The Legend of Donna Quixote   —Jennifer Abel Nuclear Winter   —Teresa White