42opus

is an online magazine of the literary arts.

2 June 2003 | Vol. 3, No. 2

Timeline, 1977

Woznik ran the corner grocery until he saw a roach,

aisle three, between Life and Froot Loops, and went mad.

He died that year. Starved himself to death.


Sarby took to the bottle and ran off with his brother's widow.

Eight years and three stillborns later she joined the circus.