Gargoyle Online
# 2

Tara Campbell fleeing Roger Cutler’s Dino sculpture at Artomatic 2012
Table of Contents
fiction
Poetry
nonFiction
Art
Anya Achtenberg
• Not every tourist is a tourist
Peter Cherches
• Man in Chair with Book
Christina Chiu
• Chapter 1, Work in Progress
M. M. DeVoe
• from “The Boy Who Loved Trees”
Gabriel Don
• Daphne’s search for self
• The Chefs
Karen Grajales
• Hinges
Garinè B. Isassi
• Two chapters from “The Reasons I’ll Forget You”
Joyce Kornblatt
• from “Mother Tongue”
Chris Morgan
• Pas de Deux
Ian Perez
• Dima the Russian
Julia Hager Tagliere
• The Knot
Tim Wendel
• Suspension
Anya Achtenberg
• Story Guru’s Instructions for Writing During Hurricanes
• Curriculum Vitae for Corona Virus Employment (CV4CV)
• Loss and Lottery
Jesse Glass
• From “Nothing Epic: The Complete Gaha Noas Zorge”
Pamela Gordon
• Ode to a Broken Left Limb
stevenallenmay
• Sleep Without Paper
Keith Aaron Munroe
• A Poem for My Brother
• Greece
Franetta McMillian
• Stupid Mean Season
Lee Potts
• Old Man Dreams
• The sea grew calm far out from land
•Going Through
Susan Tepper
• Blank
Marc Vincenz
• Trash Nebula
• A Confession of Sorts
•A Very Messy Affair
Renée Weitzner
• Numbers
• The Motorcycle
Jesse Lee Kercherval
• Woman in Pink
• Unsteady
• Black Coffee in a Corner
• She Told Me She Dreamed She was Inside a Clock
• Sunday
Photographer Unknown
• Cover art -Tara Campbell fleeing Roger Cutler’s Dino sculpture at Artomatic 2012
Audio
David Sheridan
• Resistance at the Future Site of the New Tokyo Airport
• After Long Rains
Special Thanks
Hildie S. Block, Julie Lehman, Caleb Mason, and Laura Strachan.
Wendy Guberman -Electronic mag layout
last words
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett
“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen
“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together
In vast flock of variegated feather and have a charm which the domesticated
volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company
We may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the
best friend we have in the world.”–Virginia Woolf
“Character–the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life–is the source from which self-respect springs.”–Joan Didion
“Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.”–Jean Rhys
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
― Maya Angelou
“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.” ― Ishmael Reed
“I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.” ― H. P. Lovecraft
“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.” ― Witold Gombrowicz
“Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.” ― Elena Ferrante
“Now what I like about lit is that though you feel you know the characters involved, you don’t – you get all the benefits of having a relationship, with none of the mess.”
― Joshua Cohen
“I think genre rules should be porous, if not nonexistent.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”–Jorge Luis Borges
rip
Walter Abish
Roger Angell
Marlin Briscoe
Peter Brook
Julee Cruise
Kenward Elmslie
Robert Goolrick
Michael Claude Koch
Maja Linn Kossakowska
George Lamming
David Marcuse
Hugh McElhenny
Bob Neuwirth
Brig Owens
Simon Perchik
Paula Rego
Jim Schwall
Jim Seals
David Sheridan
Mark Shields
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Vangelis
Domingo Villar
Peter Lamborn Wilson
A.B. Yehoshua