Hoist With Her Own Petard She made a great beautiful chocolate penis. She made it and he photographed it and she sent it to a great beautiful literary magazine. She sent it in the hope that they would publish it. At the time that she made this penis, she gave him a recipe for gingerbread cake. He baked the gingerbread cake and he submitted it to the same literary magazine with the same hope. After a long wait the editors accepted his cake and they rejected her penis. She was indignant. She was especially indignant since it was she who had given him the gingerbread recipe in the first place. She demanded to know why they had rejected her chocolate penis when they had accepted his gingerbread cake. “It was much too large,” the editors said. “No way could we run anything that large.” She imagined it running off the edge of the page. But her chocolate penis wasn’t that large, she realized, it wasn’t  too large for publication at all. It was his 8 by 10 glossy that made it look too large. Anne-Marie Levine Anne-Marie Levine used to make music before she made chocolate penises. Her website is http://www.annemarielevine.com.