Come out to the Souper Bowl on 5th Ave. for :lexicon’s Spring Release Party. All contributors are invited to read their work, and the reading will also feature the talents of students from Duquesne’s Advanced Writing Classes. Refreshments will be … Continue reading
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Spring 2013 Submissions
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The Talent
By Ben Johnson There was a guy I knew, once, another stand-up, from when I’d first started writing my own material. This was out in Chicago. He’s dead now, I think. Anyways, he told me that to be a rich … Continue reading
Featured Writing
Simple Beliefs
by Molly Lurie-Marino
Spring 2011 Fiction Award Winner
The M&M’s slid in the woman’s palm, coloring her love-line blue. She handed another one over to the girl.
“It’s like…when a man and a woman–“ The woman leaned on the balls of her feet.
“Like me and Jack?” The girl’s eyes were silver dollars, eyelashes on fire with the late afternoon glow. Continue reading
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Poetry
Skywalker
By Justin Kishbaugh and Carl Della Badia Continue reading
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Fiction
Aftermath
By Carrie Cessna Continue reading
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Nonfiction
Homorage
by Elan Justice Continue reading
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Art
Life on the Edge
by Amanda Westerlund Continue reading