Fall 2002, issue 9, Earth Residents of the year 2050
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This is issue number Nine, Fall 2002.

The real losers of foosball must be its small athletes.
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Today is D-Day for Arun. His last day of job search training for the man from Afghanistan
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It's only common sense that a life story begins on a paper napkin
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The Cruelty of Foosball
- Matt Schumacher

Moment
- Christine Beyer

Arun
- B. R. Dionysius

House Painter
- Joel Van Valin

Mother Watches Her Red-Headed Girl
- Allyson Shaw

Convergence
- Ken Rumble

The Real Life of Piggies
- Chris Semansky

The Short Form
- Wendy Taylor Carlise

Saguaro
- Elaine Kelly

Glass Trees, Glass Leaves
- Abraham Burickson

Ayer, Mass
- Melissa Chandler

Suppose on a Shimmering Beach
- Wendy Taylor Carlise

Earthquake
- Ken Rumble

Outskirts
- Stacie Barry

Larva
- Mark Gibbons

The River Has No Hair to Hold Onto
- Wendy Taylor Carlise

Boiler
- Paul Hardacre

Periphery
- Helen W. Mallon

Jesus In the Psych Ward
- Richard Jordan

Descanso mío
- Lisette García

Forgetting Lessons
- Alison Cole

Underdressed
- Chris Semansky

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Your name, caramelized sugar in my mouth, your body, heavy humidity between my hands,
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The night we thought we made you: standing in the shower, our kisses mingling with soap,
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"My dad?he used to call me a pussy. He liked to ram the message home
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