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Back to our affiliate: Every Lit Mag: -The big List -Home (Site Map) -Submissions -Editor	Corey Mesler’s ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bullies              “The punches came fast and hard              Lying on my back in the schoolyard.”                                     Neil Young The bigger boys laughed. They had arms like wolves. Their legs were bars, a cage for the puny. How did I ever escape? I did not escape. They are all still alive in me, here, between ventricles, a toxicant. COREY MESLER is the owner of Burke’s Book Store, in Memphis Tennessee, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick Fiction, Cranky, Thema, Mars Hill Review, Poet Lore and others.  He has also been a book reviewer for The Memphis Commercial Appeal.  A short story of his was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, published by Algonquin Books. Talk, his first novel, appeared in 2002. Nice blurbs from Lee Smith, John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Frederick Barthelme, and others. He has a new novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, due out in 2005 from Livingston. His latest three poetry chapbooks are Chin-Chin in Eden (2003) and Dark on Purpose (2004) and Short Story and Other Short Stories (2006). He also claims to have written, "Your Auntie Grizelda." Most importantly, he is Toby and Chloe’s dad and Cheryl’s husband. Burke’s Book Store Corey’s First Novel : Talk: A Novel in Dialogue Buy it on Amazon New Stories from the South 2002 : The Year's Best Buy it on Amazon Poetry and Fiction on the web by Corey Mesler: http://freewebs.com/lilylitreview/1_2mesler.html http://www.3711atlantic.com/archive/spring04/mesler2.htm http://ducts.org/06_05/html/poetry/mesler.html http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooEighteen/mesler.html http://www.tattoohighway.org/8/cmbio.html http://scrivenerspen.org/Volume5Issue3/mesler.asp http://www.suspectthoughts.com/mesler.html http://acorn.dublinwriters.org/EA13/meslerstory.htm http://www.fifthstreetreview.com/lit_files2/unnecessaryword.htm
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