July 13, 2017 | Nonfiction
The Bends
Tracy Haack
I lift my knees to walk in flippers, grab a glass of water in the kitchen before high-stepping my way back to the living room where Joe and I have dinner in front of the television.
July 11, 2017 |
New Miserable Experience
Lanny Durbin
New Miserable Experience
Gin Blossoms
Label: A&M
Released: August 4th, 1992
Length: 45:02
When I think about being a kid, it feels like thumbing through a wet notebook. Not a
A Few Thoughts While Shaving
Kristen Millares Young
It’s getting harder and harder to shave my pussy, let alone the tight star of my asshole.
Pierrot On The Futon
Derick Dupre
I was a mess at every sunrise. The door winked at me, the comb was losing teeth.
dimanche le 20 mai 2017
Steve Anwyll
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I cut through the small park. Come out the other side. As soon as I do I feel eyes on me. I look up from the sidewalk. He's standing down the block and on the other side of the busy cross
An Interview with Brian Booker
Michael Deagler
The term “unreliable narrator” was first coined in 1961 by the critic Wayne C. Booth, and since then it has become one of fiction’s most recognizable elements. While initially viewed as something
Suggestions for Tinder Experiments We Could Conduct Together
Tyler Friend
Let’s create fake accounts and try to seduce each other.
Carl "The Monolith" Reinhardt
TJ Fuller
I used to part masses. To wade through throngs of children cheering. Boogie would press play on the cassette, and I’d come through the crowd instead of take the aisle. I’d roll on the trampoline and stand above a field of pumping fists.
Security Breeds Stagnation
Emily Pavick
I call that year my wandering year or my train station year or my year of the lucky rat year. It was 1996 and I was pregnant with my first child, Boris––born with a strong heart, Boris.
168 Hours on the Las Vegas Strip
Erin Langner
You would be forgiven for thinking Vegas is not the place for you.
It Won't Always Be Like This
Anita Ho Tong
She had gorgeous hair, long and dark -- I like to wrap it around my neck after we make love and fall asleep like that.
The Time Between Us
Aaron Burch
We were there to see Belgian metal band Oathbreaker. And I bought a Khemmis shirt, in part because theirs was one of the best, most metal, riffiest sets I’ve ever seen and in part because their shirts were the kinds of all wizards and skulls that you want in a metal shirt. But it was Jaye Jayle I found most hypnotic.
How to Be a Disney
Chachi Hauser
The first thing you need to know about being a Disney is that you should avoid letting anyone know that you are one.
Dreamworlds: An Excerpt of Bruja and Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz
Elle Nash
The book reveals as much about the reader’s psyche, about the self and the readers’ reaction to reading it, as it does about the author— this deeply personal thing, a dream, so full of symbols we imbue with our own shared and cultural meanings.
Taking Care of the Baby
Letitia Trent
The neighbor comes to my door with my keys in his hand: I'd left them in the mailbox earlier, or maybe yesterday, or the day before that.
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Sean Kilpatrick
Nemo me impune lacessit - pueri et infirmi, qui scripsit in pupa.
Trigger Warning
Noah Eli Gordon
It’s not the enormity of the half-eaten doughnut.
The Girlfriends
Michelle Lyn King
His new girlfriend makes things with her hands. You know. Things. Candle holders out of twigs. A mosaic picture frame out of broken up bits of CDs.
Thinking Errors
J. Bailey Hutchinson
Because I love in the manner of eating I am sure whatever I take from you will pass.
The Habit of Cutting In the Edges
Andrew Johnson
You gather one brush, one can of paint, one room, and one hand tethered to attention.
Clothes Are Rarely Important in a Highly Emphasized Way
Dóra Grőber
He's lying in bed thinking about his imaginary lover. He's not touching himself, he doesn't think about him when he does, only maybe in the very final moments.
Interview with Dan Chaon
Bryan Furuness
As far as structure goes, I’ve always been interested in the way fragments of narrative can play off one another. All of my novels have been puzzles—games—that I’ve created for myself.