Public Republic

Kenneth Pobo Photo: Darwin Bell Tartuffe’s selling dentures at the mall copped from a dental clinic, winks from the confessional. At the I-95 Welcome Center he hands out maps with bags of blow. On the mayor’s lap. He’s running a resale shop but it’s really a front for a kidnappers. He’s roiling in bad chemistry, […]

Kelly Martineau Photo: sharif Sometimes it is slow, a gentle whirl through space.  I seem to float as the ground spirals up at me slowly, like time unwound.  In that moment, there is still a chance that I can save myself from an embarrassing spill. That doesn’t happen very often; usually, I crash to the […]

Dean Crawford Photo: VMOS The sky is falling, something yells at me. I stop dead in my tracks so it won’t run into me. Whatever it is looks like a chicken with its head cut off. It’s running around in crazy circles, yelling its fool head off at everyone about the falling sky. Whatever it […]