FICTION: Mardi Gras. By Max E. Verga. It was the best Mardi Gras ever: Owen had found a tattooed woman who gave him everything he could have dreamed of. Then the boyfriend came home.
"You suck too?" he added as his eyes narrowed to slits. "No," Owen responded, which was the truth, but not one he thought the cop was about to accept.

POETRY: New Orleans, Nos 1 to 9. By Master Sade. Gay, straight, gender-bending. . . Master Sade's poems explore a New Orleans that many misunderstand.
new orleans wears leather, carries handcuffs, takes, does not forgive . . .