Contents
play money
$100,000
$200,000
$300,000
$400,000
$500,000
$600,000
$700,000
$800,000
$900,000
$1,000,000
eBay sonnets
Lucky Me
throwing the dice
Delta Flight 659
Dinner Party Horror
Hurricane Katrina
The Language Police
Repeat
Basically
A Dog and a Boy
Apple
Stupid Vanilla
small tip
“Please Don’t Sit Like a Frog, Sit Like a Queen”
I Dreamed I Wrote This Sestina Wearing My Maidenform Bra
What Women Know
Girl Talk
Cinderella’s Ghost Slipper
Spoon
Perimenopause
The Da Vinci Poke
No Home-Wrecker
one-armed bandits
Casino
My Mother’s Hair
Moonprint
W
Washing My Father’s Hair
Healing Pies
Urban Legend
Urban Legend Inquest
Photo Op
big tip
Sipping Café con Leche Where the Bombs Fell
Anagram America
Weapons Inspectors’ Checklist
Acknowledgments