July 1, 2009 | Fiction
Tell the Bees
Jessica Piazza
"...as soon as a member of the family has breathed his or her last a younger member of the household... is told to visit the hives, and rattling a chain of small keys tap on the hive and whisper
July 1, 2009 | Fiction
The Piano Thief and Hamsters
Stephen Graham Jones
The Piano Thief
It'll take him all of a month, longer if he's in love. But always at least those thirty days. Because a piano is heavy. What he's learned to do over the years, though, is take
June 1, 2009 | Interview
An Interview with Jedediah Berry
Jensen Whelan
Jedediah Berry's first novel The Manual of Detection came out in February from the Penguin Press to uniformly awesome reviews from places like the New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The
June 1, 2009 | Fiction
Some Kind of Memorial
B.J. Hollars and Brendan Todt
Georgia Ambler used to jog on Thursdays while Jake and I shot baskets in the drive. "You're outta shape, old man," Jake laughed, doubled over himself. Locking his hands to his knees, Jake spit
Terror, Not Terror
Kyle Beachy
When they told us that the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, had been destroyed by a crude but powerful bomb — TERRORIST, they said, TERROR, with the same rote certitude of those who chant
SpinningaGoodYarn.com FAQ
Eric Vrooman
Do you really spend 80% of your free time knitting?
Yes. I've knit during a blackout and a brownout, on the back seat of a double bike, on the beach during the eye of a hurricane, and during a
The Great Perhaps (an excerpt)
Joe Meno
Fourteen years old, Thisbe Casper has begun riding her bicycle around Hyde Park looking for God. Before each school day and after, she pedals up and down the street in a gray skirt and blue
An Interview with Norman Lock
Blake Butler
NOTES ON GRIM TALES
I see the dates on the work go from 1996-2004. Were these written one by one and then later compiled in a certain order? How did the construction process for Grim
An Interview with Joe Meno
Douglas Light
Joe Meno is the author of six books, most recently the story collection Demons in the Spring and The Boy Detective Fails. His new novel, The Great Perhaps, is out in May.
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Ode to a Bad Album: The Rolling Stones' Some Girls (1978)
Scott Garson
Track #8: "Before They Make Me Run"
We walked home along the railroad tracks. One day I tried to time my stride so each foot would come down on a weathered tie and not the cinder stone. I was
The Quality Controller
T. M. De Vos
He was temping at a website, one of those online radio stations that you could customize based on music you already liked. It was backed up by evidence, a tab you could click to find out which of
Discontent
Stephanie Johnson
When the weatherman warns the roads will become impassable, your mother sends your father out for supplies. Your mother tucks the money in your mitten. She sends you along to keep him
Heart of the Hide
Paul Silverman
Frank wanted a "heart of the hide" glove ever since he was in the PeeWees, but the dad of all knowledge said nothing doing, a glove like that had to be earned, game by game, and by earned he didn't
Defending Reggie
Litsa Dremousis
"Becca, you're in charge," Mom said, craning her neck around the driver's side burgundy vinyl headrest. "I'm picking you kids up in three hours at this exact spot, in front of Gate D. Do not, I
His Point of Sadness Now Becoming Light
Adam Robinson
There he was in the dugout crying.
All the guys were on the field. They were slugging it out because what were they supposed to do? Clint got beamed in the small and Gary charged from the
The Eric Chavez Sonnets
Jesse Morse
September 9, 2007
Add incandescent dedication to six gold gloves
and get a damaged biceps tendon, a bad back and
a "loose body" removed from the bicep joint
in a
Some Little-Known Statistical Anomalies in the Game of Baseball
J. Ryan Stradal
It is not for nothing that baseball has existed since 1846 and now encompasses 30 teams playing 162 games each a year. In that span of time, speculative taxonomists and fly-by-night actuaries have
Baseball Haiku(s)!
coach wont stop yelling
"watch the signs from the bench coach!"
but i hate bunting
- Brad Epperson
Swing Through
In sheer disbelief
Having swung through the fastball
He
No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service
Robert Swartwood
I stop at a 7-Eleven for a pack of gum. I give the cashier a twenty.
"You don't have any ones?" the cashier asks.
I don't, but I say I do anyway.
The cashier just stares at me.
"Um,
The Pastry Chef
Nathan Leslie
So, my step-sister Alice. She divorces her husband of ten years. Bart. High school sweethearts. Sad, sad, sad. Claims he beat her. Wins 75% in court. Unheard of, her lawyer says. But abuse factored
The Importance of Reading Ernest
Jimmy Chen
His caps lock button broke and he could only type in capital letters. He spent a notable portion of his money on hos and could not buy a new keyboard. When he emailed his friends they wrote back
The Daughter's Name is Daughter
Benjamin Buchholz
1.
so there's this girl, as there always is, except she's a movie star, which figures, since this is me, telling you a story you aren't likely to believe anyhow, and she's not very
Interview with Erin McGraw
Bryan Furuness
Erin McGraw teaches writing at Ohio State, where she works with her husband, the poet Andrew Hudgins. She's the author of The Good Life, Lies of the Saint, and The Baby Tree. In her latest
Interview with Paul Maliszewski
Sean Carman
Paul Maliszewski's Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters and Other Great Pretenders, was published in January by The New Press. The book is a collection of essays, interviews, and reports
Hawkgirl in High School
R.L. Futrell & P. Kevin Heath
1. Sweet Sixteen:
She is thinking of her father at the breakfast table, reading the paper. Can almost hear him humming softly to himself. Can hear the slow crunch of cereal and the