Introduction: An eclectic collection of Short Stories and suspiciously impractical Poetry, all mashed together like a mango smoothie. Or something.?Good Poetry: Our Souls Are Sad to Death?(Maybe) Humorous Poetry: Texas Has Them Too, Very Serious Emails?Good Short Stories: None.?Short Stories: Portal to the Bathroom, Claiming Omniscience, Untethered, It's About Time.?Flash Fiction: Learning the Loop?Classical Ode: To the Man Who Raised Me?Political Witness: Visiting Canc煤n?Sonnets: I Forgot to Write It, Very Serious Emails?Haikus: Texas Has Them Too?Free Verse: Victims of the Heart, Our Souls Are Sad to Death?Ghazal: The Modern Contract?Pantoum: Impenetrable City?Inventive Erasure: (Fifty Shades of) Grey Pages 1-2?Villanelle: Denied the Rank of Master?Ekphrastic: Lobster HeirloomTake a look at the drivel I've written and despair! I'll see you on the real stories soon....