Play Pen Open Mic 2nd Anniversary Celebration August 2, 2011 7:30-10:30. Yes, it's been two years of brave poets, writers, storytellers and songwriters and musicians honing their craft before a live audience. Let's keep it going. Come out to celebrate, participate, and appreciate. We couldn't do this without your continued support.
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Troupe 476 by Augustin Martinez
Nestor and I continued stuffing bars of homemade lye soap, small bottles of goat’s milk shampoo, and homemade cassava bread in our backpacks. We’d need these for our yearly trip to the trabajo voluntario in Tarará, http://ping.fm/Tebha

My Rump Hurts Disorder by Heath Corlew
I knew what every gesture, facial expression, vocal tone all of it, drunk or sober, stoned or coked up, on ecstasy, all sorts of pills, on ether and even VCR head-cleaner, psychedelics, Adderall, birth control and on God. http://ping.fm/kmUDa

Albino by Bruce Bromley
“Hey pretty guy, you got a boyfriend?” the cabbie asks in the rear-view mirror, his eyes flooding its rectangle with that green, bruised light belonging to all the storms http://ping.fm/8zkxV

Amphibiocracy by Timothy Bearly
Things went from bad to worse when a few shrewd frogs decided that they would simply claim all available pond space for themselves and charge a fee for the new immigrants to live there. Ipso facto government was founded, ergo a new system was designed, a caste system, a system in which the propertied class became the masters, and the propertyless became vassals. http://ping.fm/AMVpb

The July issue of The Write Room features seven brilliant short pieces of fiction and nineteen moving works of poetry. I invite you to read, enjoy, and share the issue.
Joellen Kubiak-Woodall
Editor
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