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Mummification

By Roderick Heath
She had long known she wore her outsider status like a jailhouse tattoo, but something new had provoked her now. Too many ghosts had just waved their rag-and-bone scriptures in her face.

Posted on March 30, 2007

Tawdry Weeping Confusion

By Roderick Heath
Claudia sat at her kitchen table and sobbed as she felt all the muscles in her body grinding like gears on each other. Then came lucid emptiness, and it all seemed small, another of those daily absurdities life seemed to keep in store for her. Claudia dressed shortly after, donning her best, blackest dress.

Posted on March 29, 2007

The Confidante

By Roderick Heath
Claudia, mascara beginning to drip black tears, approached the grey-painted door at the back entrance to her building, then there was a broad palm clutching her shoulder, spinning her about and a blind second's rush of fear.

Posted on March 28, 2007

A Modern Woman

By Roderick Heath
Most customers were usually slightly nauseated by body-reality once that carefully applied sheen had been unsheathed, broken, punctured, exhausted. Matsuo was not happy until he was lounging in naked nothing.

Posted on March 27, 2007

The Working Girl

By Roderick Heath
Her look, always sleekly minimalist, usually involved a black dress, with narrow straps or backless and sheer. Below, black stockings, usually with elastic tops and sometimes girdle and suspenders, and she always found the reactions of clients to these very funny.

Posted on March 26, 2007

Claudia: From the Author

The backstory
For Claudia, such a fraught threesome strikes as reason for life itself, down to the edge of danger of losing everything.

Posted on March 26, 2007

The Periodical Table

By The Beachwood Magazine Affairs Desk
All those contracts to the mayor's pals, and O'Hare still can't crack Airport Revenue News's best concessions list.

Posted on March 21, 2007

The Periodical Table

By Jonathan Shipley
The best guitar albums of 1967, and why the Dalai Lama is fat.

Posted on March 9, 2007

MUSIC - Killinois.
TV - Next: The Ghost Of Some Chick Who Knew Al Capone.
POLITICS - Obama's Mortgage Settlement Stinks.
SPORTS - Chicago's Secret BMX Facility. Plus: Super Bowl Housecleaning.

BOOKS - When Walter Payton Danced On Soul Train.

PEOPLE PLACES & THINGS - Big Fat 49 To Strawberry Town.

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