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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center		Renee Gladman Renee Gladman is the editor of Leroy, a beautifully bound chapbook series that publishes innovative poetry and prose by mostly emerging and geographically obscured writers. Her own books include Arlem (Idiom Books, 1996), Not Right Now (Second Story Books, 1998), Juice (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), and The Activist (Krupskaya, 2003). Her work explores 21st century urban American society and has been published in numerous journals in the United States.

from The Activist Renee Gladman

Officials pursue activists over rocky terrain in search of answers. "We want to make sure anger does not ruin these kids," Daniel Sharpe of the Brendan Seize Unit (BSU) confides, "but it's like pushing against water." Investigators combed shards from the collapsed bridge for signs that it had been blown apart. "I have a feeling that Monique Wally and her group are behind this. What we have is a smell of iron burning, but no visual evidence on site." Sharpe and his BSU team have joined with local police and the FBI to solve the encrypted crime. "Only the time of day distinguishes these so- called dissidents from terrorists. Had they blown that bridge an hour earlier or an hour later, we would have had a lot of death on our hands." The bridge remains in tact today, despite reports that it is long gone. A team of specialists from the Institute of Explosive Applications in Toronto, Ontario is expected to settle the mat- ter by mid-week. "These scientists are the elite among their field. We have every faith that they will acknowledge the violence done to the bridge," the President assured viewers today.

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