http://fraglit.com/flit an online magazine of fragmentary writing Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:09:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fall 2009 :: Issue Five Editor's Note Merina Canyon Flash Flood Wm. Anthony Connolly The Strange Loop Olivia Dresher Mood and Memory Fragments ... http://fraglit.com/flit/archives/156 It’s hard to believe that two years have gone by since the first issue of FragLit appeared in the Fall of 2007. Since then, our mailing list has grown and more writers are linking to FragLit at their blogs and websites, bringing in a continual flow of new readers and ... http://fraglit.com/flit/archives/157 Merina Canyon (1) Your name is Chaos. That’s what your partner, Freedom, has been calling you for the last few days. You decided to take the name Chaos when you read a quote in a book you brought along on this river trip: “Give up control; live in chaos.” ... http://fraglit.com/flit/archives/159 Wm. Anthony Connolly I just saw a picture of someone I knew, briefly, for a short period of time, a long time ago. Just now he was in front of me as he is today, in a picture smiling and frozen in a family moment, uninhibited and not concerned that one ... http://fraglit.com/flit/archives/175 Olivia Dresher Tomorrow. Yesterday. Today. Now. What did those words mean to me when I was young? They meant time travel. Even feeling Now felt like time travel. Every time I said the word tomorrow or yesterday or today, my body would buzz. I felt I was flying, flying back or flying forward or ... http://fraglit.com/flit/archives/160 Richard Jay Goldstein Now you remember, you remember how it begins. It begins on the steep wet streets of san francisco, where you are a u.s. navy sailor, on liberty from your ship in the bay. You are a very young man, eager to wander drunken down dark empty ... http://fraglit.com/flit/archives/161 Richard Goodman Sarah and I are staying at the Hotel de France, not far from the Eiffel Tower. We have known each other forty years. We met and became lovers in college. Then she got married. And divorced. And so did ... http://fraglit.com/flit/archives/162 Esther Altshul Helfgott 1 He’s Sadness and thin, scared, confused— a bird looking for its mother There is no pill for this not for him, not for me I give him a pear. He eats it all— bit by bit until it’s gone. 2 Today I wheel him to the window where he points outside and says: He’s dying I say: Who’s dying? He says: That guy 3 More and ... http://fraglit.com/flit/archives/163 Andrew T. McCarter (The following selections consist of the first 20 fragments from the unpublished manuscript.) 1. Newspaper Photograph You are looking at yourself. A photo of yourself published in a newspaper clipping dated January 30, 1990. The headline reads Missing Student. It has been 15 years since you disappeared. You were an “A” student ... http://fraglit.com/flit/archives/164 Greggory Moore I saw her only the one time. The sex was good, but no better than I’d enjoyed with others during so many similar encounters. She spent the night, in the morning collected her clothes, dressed in the bathroom, left. There was the obligatory exchange of phone ... http://fraglit.com/flit/archives/165