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**PRINT: MIXTAPE: THE2NDHAND’s 29th issue builds on a concept we introduced to the Chicago reading/performance scene in July 2007 -- the Mixtape reading, wherein several writers cast short-short stories inspired by pop songs. The concept evolved after several incarnations of its live component to include a published series here at the2ndhand.com and, now, a broadsheet. This latest includes 2008 Birmingham Artwalk contest winners Nadria Tucker and Emily Self, both past contributors to THE2NDHAND and both writing from Birmingham, and a story by Zach Plague, author of the art-school satire/adventure novel Boring boring boring..., out now from Chicago’s Featherproof Books. Tracklist: Leaving Batesville, Night Moves, Carousel...

**WEB: A BRIEF QUIZ Stacy Bierlein
MIXTAPE: WARSAW Michael Tesney
STAND Lauren Pretnar
HERMAN: PART 2 Stanley Holditch
NEW AUDIO: TRAIN WRECK GIRL Sean Carswell
THE PLATYPUS: PART 9 Zach Plague
AN INTERVIEW WITH ZACH PLAGUE | Todd Dills
THE ANTIPURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE: SUMMER | Andrew Davis

A BRIEF QUIZ
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Stacy Bierlein

Bierlein is a past contributor to THE2NDHAND and numerous other magazines, likewise a California-based editor for OV Books, the short-story collection-dedicated imprint spun off from the legendary, Chicago-based literary magazine Other Voices.

Because you're a true friend, you will try to let me off the hook by saying:
a) I needed to find some new way to catch my breath.
b) Women who are sleep deprived make unfortunate decisions.
c) I was a thirty year old WASP with father issues and he was a fifty year old Jew with a WASP fantasy.
d) All of the above.

DecomP Magazine

The following is proof that I am pathetic:
a) Some nights I slept with his photo on the pillow next to me.
b) I spent over $800 on lingerie he never saw.
c) I told him he had the most aesthetically pleasing cock I had ever seen. (I lied.)
d) All of the above.

The so-called relationship was doomed because:
a) We lost momentum at the exact moment we needed to gain it.
b) We fell into our confessed patterns. He grew bored and detatched; I analyzed every word he said until all of our words sounded ridiculous together.
c) A woman should know better than to love a man who hated Lost in Translation; who could not even guess at what the woman whispered into the man's ear at the end.
d) All of the above.

In the morning I still cry in the shower.
TRUE or FALSE

As awful as I feel now, I would do it all again.
TRUE or FALSE

Finally I've started forgetting the sound of his voice.
TRUE or FALSE

I hate my awareness of the forgetting; my wanting to remember.
TRUE or FALSE

THE CHALLENGE OF ACTING NORMAL

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