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say what?

A Poem by Philip Gaber

It seems that much of what has been said is repeated because someone didn’t like how it was said the first time, so they had to say it the way t..

i feel like i can’t remember how i feeI

A Story by Philip Gaber

So now that I’ve finally found my voice, I can begin to write that Marginal American Novel.Its central theme will be The Search for Personal..

the country we inhabited

A Story by Philip Gaber

My father took me fishing the day after I barely graduated from high school.I didn’t really like to fish, but I had nothing else to do, so I fig..

preferring form to truth

A Poem by Philip Gaber

My x-girl, with her hair, getting twenty hoursof unstoppable volume, and her face gettingthe deepest-feeling clean available just gother PhD from Berk..

something distinct and challenging, all on its own

A Poem by Philip Gaber

So now they’re all holding rallies, thinking they’re going to be the ones to set this country on fire again. But who’s kidding whom?..

as vaguea as he is flawed

A Poem by Philip Gaber

Failed Poet said,"I stopped taking my meds because I didn't like the way they made me feel. I walked around like a zombie, totally numb. What'..

a real natural passionate act

A Poem by Philip Gaber

I went away somewherein my head and just stayed thereuntil you came along and said,“You must be turning over somewell, intriguing and provocativ..

a world of paperboys

A Poem by Philip Gaber

The paperboy, who’s late as usual, scans the headlines. Even though his route size has grown, not everybody subsc..

pawning her dignity

A Story by Philip Gaber

She lived in an attic apartment above a dry cleaner in the red light district of a city whose inhabitants walked around muttering to themselves and ..

to plunder and misrepresent

A Story by Philip Gaber

I hadn’t worked in, like, a year. I was living on unemployment. I’d get calls from friends and family members.“Found a job yet?&rdqu..