GUEST EDITOR GABRIEL GUDDING ~THE STRANGE CALL
VOLUME 19, ISSUE 3 ISSN 1543-6063


     Book of Surrealist Games     

(Apologies to Alistair Britchie and Dodie Bellamy)

3.  Choose a number of words that have double meanings.  Arrange them in a sentence until they make sense of your spouse.  Use that sentence as the first and last lines of your story.

1.  Do not play along.  Take a spouse cut into pieces.  Go to assembly and pledge allegiance.  Don't forget Under God.  On the assembly line, make peace with your spouse.  Don't stand for which it stands.  Your spouse is yourn own.  Your piece.  What Laura Mullen would say (horror, etc.).

2.  I sense that my storied past will affect my sentence.  It makes no nevermind to attempt a story of the sentence.  My sense is that a 90-story sentence will not go over.  Give me a few cents and I'll tell you the story of my 90-year sentence.  Marriage: A Sentence.  Marriage: A Story.  Marriage: A Sensibility.

3.  An assembled story makes no marriage.  A cut-up spouse makes no marriage.  A cut-up spouse makes no All.  Don't forget Justice For.  Sense makes no.  Spouse: The Assemblage.  Spouse: The Cut-Ups.  Spouse: A Text.

4.  Sentenced to noun.  Sensed noun.  Storied noun.  Don't forget Pledge.  An I in there somewhere.  Take my spouse -- please.  Cunt up, assemble.  Fuck up, dissemble.  Resist temptation to provide transitions between newly severed gaps.

5.  Don't forget Allegiance.  Loyalty an issue from the getgo.  What if my spouse sentences story in ways I don't.  To whom will I pledge.  Sense similar -- dare I say aesthetic.  I do.  I do.  I do.

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6.  I sense that my storied past will affect my sentence.  Spouse as Peace Prize.  Piece work.  (Over time) too when lucky.  Piece prize into perceived sentence.  Marriage: A Job o' Work.  Marriage: An Adventure.  Marriage: Some Assembly Required.

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7.  I sense that my storied past will affect my sentence.  I do.  I do.  I do.  The ten-story story.  Ten            long    stories.  Sen-ten-ces free with purchase of sensible shoes.  Sense, the unmade bed.

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8.  I sense that my storied past will affect my sentence.  My sense my prize.  Don't forget To The Republic.  For which he stands for sentencing.  I now pronounce you spouse cut up.  I now pronounce you piece and text.  I now pronounce you storied past.  Do not play long. 

Kass
Fleisher

Kass Fleisher is the author of a creative nonfiction work, The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History (SUNY Press, 2004); and an experimental prose/poetry work, Accidental Species: A Reproduction (forthcoming from Chax Press in 2005).  Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Mandorla, Notre Dame Review, Antennae, Bombay Gin, Postmodern Culture, Z Magazine, American Book Review, and electronic book review, among other journals, and her fiction has been awarded annual prizes from The Dickinson Review and Plainswoman.  With her partner Joe Amato, she wrote BEAR RIVER, a screenplay which achieved semi-final status in the most recent Chesterfield Writer's Film Project (Paramount Studios).  She is an Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University, in Normal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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