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He whisper-sings the punch line. Toot toot, peanut butter.

MILK’S ABOUT TO SOUR BY AMY PURCELL 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 14

Little peanut sitting on the track/Her heart was all a-flutter/Along came a choo-choo down the track/He pauses, nudging me, and whisper-sings the punch line. “Toot toot, peanut butter.”

Annie glanced behind her, looking for Ben.

LIKE SUNSHINE BY ELAINE OLUND 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 14

It happened often, a reflex she couldn’t control any more than she could control sneezing in the spring. She looked behind her, forgetting for the tiniest fraction of a heartbeat that he wouldn’t be zigzagging after her like a butterfly in a flower garden.

CORPORATE GOLDFISH BY DAVID BARNES 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 14

Cruel as cornflakes

sinking through the serial bowl

The corporate goldfish

circle in the 20-storey shark tanks

of La Défense

TACOMA BY IAN DENNING 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 14

I figure if I’m going to be broke, I’m going to be broke in  some place I like. So I came to Tacoma. I’ve tried hard, I just can’t get away from it. I stepped off the train in Seattle, first thing I see there was a big sign just like that one out there. You’ll like Tacoma.

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34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 14

WHEN THE RED KING AWAKES BY JOSEPH GUYER, MILK’S ABOUT TO SOUR BY AMY PURCELL, LIKE SUNSHINE BY ELAINE OLUND, NEVER CROSSED YOUR MIND BY ALANAH L MUIR, AIRPORT FICTION BY BOB SAWATZKI, WILD ROMANIA BY WILLIAM FALO, SNAKES IN THE CANE BY WILLIAM R STODDART, HAUNT ME BY RANDALL BROWN, TACOMA BY IAN DENNING, SOME THINGS SACRED BY JOHN JANDA, A CALL FOR DADDY BY KANISHA LAMPKIN, CORPORATE GOLDFISH BY DAVID BARNES, ON THE BEACH BY BOB SAWATZKI.

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