Theme #4: “Gastronomy”
Flux Lit: 1 Poem and 1 Story
by Adrian Kresnak
“Just out of arms reach, one of the other participants was pulling some things out of her bag. It looked like a food storage container. The participant opened it; a stack of pancakes remained perfectly piled inside.”
Courtship at the Pizza Giant
Fiction by Paul Lewellan
“‘By the time you turned sixteen, you’d been arrested for breaking and entering, vandalism, simple assault, graffiti, truancy, drug possession, petty larceny, underage drinking, joy riding, and shoplifting.’
‘I keep busy.’”
Things Our Mother Made Us Eat
Fiction by Andrew Careaga
“Friday night was trash-bean soup night, so named by my father for our mother’s end-of-week concoction…Despite its name, the soup was bearable.”
The Things My Father Used to Eat
Fiction by Andrew Careaga
“And now, I think, perhaps that was why he ate those strange organs with such vigor. Perhaps they were some curandero’s remedy, some potion, some magic to inoculate him from the ailments that had historically plagued his family. Ailments of kidneys, livers and matters of the heart.”