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ISSUE 25 · FREAKY FREEZE


Dear readers,

When the first snows fall we retreat inward, coming face to face with our inner freak. It's frightening, and a little lonely at first; but from that synaptic funhouse, poesy and prose burst and bloom.

LPZ #25 is a Tecate topped with Tapatio, a prairie locomotive, a Paris metro lying between your lips. She will loose your mind, vomit you conscious and shadow you through woods. Most of all, we hope she will set you aglow for the season and inspire a deep trek into your own imagination.

With many thanks to publisher Michael Neff, we say tally ho!

With love,

Melissa Broder
chief editor

D.W. Lichtenberg
managing editor

October 14, 2010

CONTENTS




NIN ANDREWS
danger hanging over my darling........................................................1, 2, 3

ELAINE KAHN
why do you plague me about souls...............................................4, 5, 6, 7

LAUREN IRELAND
the scar on my forehead forbids that....................................................8, 9

AUSTIN LAGRONE
I felt a mighty power fly along my arm........................................10, 11, 12

MATTHEW BYRNE
the hypnotic stage was even longer in coming.................................13, 14

BEN MIROV
language that was of bloom and blood laughed.............................. 15, 16

MIRANDA FIELD
horrid screeching as the stake drove home................................17, 18, 19

JONATHAN LEVITT
the scudding clouds crossing and passing.................................20, 21, 22

RUSSELL JAFFE
the wild yell seemed to come from his room..........................................23

KRYSTAL LANGUELL
kiss her dead lips if you will....................................................................24

J.A. TYLER
the feet you love must walk in paths of flame...................................25, 26

MARK YAKICH
laid over the clamps of those doors garlic..................................27, 28, 29

MICHAEL SCHIAVO
feel this nocturnal existence tell on me.............................................30, 31

EMILY PETTIT
she grew paler as she asked faintly.......................................................32

KARIN GOTTSHALL
whilst the old fox is tied in his box..........................................................33

JARED WHITE
almost whiter than the lawn....................................................................34

SASHA FLETCHER
the coffin was empty...............................................................................35

DAWN LONSINGER
the sun rise up, and up, and up..............................................................36


EDITORS

MELISSA BRODER
to them I say 'pouf'

D.W. LICHTENBERG
safe from the vampire in that holy circle