Pointer #7 – elimae

* Online lit mags are publishing some of the most intriguing writing available today. Every Monday, I post a pointer to a site that offers fiction and/or poetry either as free content or as samples from subscriber issues. Today’s pointer is to elimae

from elimae’s Information page:

elimae, pronounced el-ee-may, and standing for electronic literary magazine, was founded by Deron Bauman in 1996 and has published essays, fiction, interviews, poetry and reviews. At the end of 2004, Bauman departed to concentrate on other responsibilities, and the editorship was assumed by Cooper Renner.

fiction excerpt:

I Can Only Do Great Things If You Die
Steve Stringer

I made an evening of drinking mojitos and googling photos of the world’s tallest man and thought surely this giant will die soon, and he did the following morning. Giants never last long. I felt implicated in his death, so the next night I ate Mexican and drank margaritas — on the rocks with salt — in his honor.

poetry excerpt:

Variations on the Expulsion from Eden
Eliza Victoria

i. Adam and Eve as Evicted Tenants

We wager you wanted us to do it, giving us this place for free, allowing us to re-paint the walls, rearrange the existing furniture.

Cerise, we decided to call it, and we rolled up our sleeves and applied the coat in clean, thick strokes, watching, amazed, as the paint dried, accepting its definition.

Rose, we whispered to each other, and we licked each other’s nipples, each others cheeks.