There were changes all right. Peas were bigger now, for one thing. Much bigger. The size of golf balls. And they weren’t green anymore. They were golf ball-colored. And the pickles were as big as watermelons. And they didn’t grow on trees anymore. They grew in patches.
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Mike Topp was born in Washington, D.C. and currently lives in New York City unless he has died or moved. He’s recently been published in the Brooklyn Rail, HAD and X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, and has been interviewed by Ben Niespodziany. He has collaborated on books with Sparrow and Raymond Pettibon.
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Rejection Letters 