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Flytrap, Issue #9, June 2008

By Marshall Payne ⋅ June 23, 2008

Flytrap #9 begins with M. Rickert’s “War is Beautiful.” Told in a highly subjective first person, an American soldier befriends a Vietnamese girl named Binh. He thinks of her as his angel, but soon she takes on the qualities of a ghost. Rickert begins by using an ironic tone with lines such as: “…humans [...]

Flytrap, Issue 8, November 2007

By Paul J. Iutzi ⋅ January 24, 2008

Tropism Press’s webpage for Flytrap describes the magazine as “a wunderkammer…between cardstock covers.” My first thought on reading that was, “What is a wunderkammer?” So, extra points for making me reach for a dictionary when reading their marketing copy (in case you don’t have a dictionary handy, a wunderkammer is, basically, a museum of curiosities). [...]

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