Category: Issue 03

Post Road Magazine – Issue #03 | Spring/Summer 2002

FICTION:

The Sweater, The Pair of Shoes, and the Jacket, by Rebecca Curtis
Vegetable on the Hoof, by Chris Offutt
White Square, by Brian Evenson
The Museum of Speed, by Len Jenkinson

POETRY:

A History of Kansas + Scenic Overlook, by Jennifer Kronovet
From The Lichtenberg Figures, by Ben Lerner
Why Sleep + Ocean is a Word in This Poem Cate Marvin 44 Rabid Dog + Looking at Satan, by Sarah Messer
In A Certain Place, At A Certain Time + The Prince, by Kate Moos

THEATRE:

Responsibility, Justice, and Honesty: Rehearsing Edward Bond’s Saved Ken, by Rus Schmoll

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Karoo by Steve Tesich, by Thomas Beller
Bruno Schultz and Bohumil Hrabal, by Myla Goldberg
The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adelia Prado Translated from the Portuguese by Ellen Watson, by Steve Orlen
O.Henry, by Michael Snediker
James McMichael, by Robert Pinsky
Five Essential Modern Short Stories, by Jaime Clarke
Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady, by Caroline Blackwood,
by Nancy Schoenberger, by Liam Rector
Winton, Munro, Berger, by Frederick Reiken
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, by Anne McCarty

CRITICISM:

Why Baltimore House Music Is The New Dylan, by Scott Seward

ART:

Wildwood: Nelson Bakerman

NONFICTION:

My Word: Memoir’s Necessary Betrayal, by Lee Martin
Moving Water, by Kevin Holdsworth
Shouting Obscenities at George Bush the Younger, by Olisa Corcoran

ETCETERA:

Letters: Letters Home from the Pacific, 1944-46, Francis Arthur Flynn: Compiled and Edited by Rick Moody
Travelogue: What is the Color of Hope in Haiti? by Jason Wilson
Biography: Extending Harry Crosby’s “Brief Transit”, by Edward Brunner

The Sweater, the Pair of Shoes, and the Jacket

by Rebecca Curtis
from Post Road 3

A daughter disobeyed and the mother of the daughter hit the daughter very quickly with her hand, a thing she had not done before in the past.  Soon the daughter disobeyed again and again the mother struck the daughter in the face with her hand and then also with an object which had been nearby.  The daughter cried and ran away but soon came back and disobeyed and the mother took the object which had been placed nearby for use and broke it upon her daughter who moved from the room on her knees and came back and was beat by the mother who had become three mothers with three objects which had all been nearby and the daughter on her belly moved very slowly from the room and eventually came back and disobeyed and the mother took the daughter’s head in her mothers’ hands and pulled it close to her own and held it in that place for hours, and now that the mother had given the girl a sweater, a pair of shoes, and a jacket, one item upon each departure, the girl was dressed.