February 3, 2017 | Fiction
My Mother in 2075
Erika Price
She can't remember the important bad things. I ask her about the divorces and the dead dogs buried in the woods and the cracks in the bathroom tile and the negative, blood red balance in her checking account and her eyes go blank and she shakes her head like she's been overcome by some faint neurological chill.
February 1, 2017 | Poetry
Once, on a full moon, I started sobbing
E Yeon Chang
I have watched too much reality TV about Kimye and teen mothers. This is why I cannot explain April like a normal person.
January 30, 2017 |
Book Report: Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm Macdonald
Steve Anwyll
I came at reading this book as I do most things. Like a fool. I expected what the cover hinted at. A memoir. Some casual retelling of Norm's life. I expected quaint takes of rural Canadian life
Lana del Rey / Mary Tyler Moore: A Review of Friendship
Amanda Goldblatt
In memory, we wanted to repost this gem from 2014 by Amanda Goldblatt that used Mary Tyler Moore as a lens to become a "review of friendship."
The Weight
Lauren Grabowski
As a houseguest, I sucked. I acted like I was doing them a favor by living there, but in reality I would have been destitute without their hospitality.
"You look like you're trying to write the Great American Novel, which makes me want to barf": An Interview with Kevin Wilson
Aaron Burch
I've been a Kevin Wilson fan since his debut story collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, first found it's way into my hands, one way or another. I've been reading and re-reading the
Stories At The Table
Eric Barnes
“They were getting ‘the talk,’” Carmen says, pausing dramatically, “and in walks a huge nurse wearing a robe.”
Feel No Ways
Sara McGrath
Looking back, the efforts we made were desperate. We took walks. In bed, he fed me grapes; chilled, out of the refrigerator. We took weekends off work, spending money in small towns where there was
You Would Even Say It Glowed
Adam Armstrong
Later that evening, when confronted about my absence, I told her that my grandfather said I looked sick and should go home. His senility always made him my reliable scapegoat.
Three Poems
Brian Laidlaw
Miracles come more seldom now.
It’s satellite interference.
HInterland Transmissions: L'Ombre de la bête
Steve Anwyll
...the products we couldn't get here. They'd come home with stories of innocent smiles given to bored border guards while they wore two pairs of jeans under three dresses. The trunk of their car filled with Cherry Coke and flavours of chips we couldn't comprehend. Cheap rum. Meat. Cigarettes. Electronics.
Three Poems
CL Bledsoe & Michael Gushue
In the far-flung depths of the future, historians
will look back to this day and say, "This
is where it all went wrong."
Thing I Didn’t Write About Whoppers and How You Broke My Heart
Tara Atkinson
This was the “Year of the Whopper”:
I ate a Whopper.
I ate a Whopper.
You dumped me.
Three Poems
Shelley Whitaker
There’s something about a horse that floats.
Watch her neck hover over the half-door
of a stall, or her sunlit backside rise
In Silhouette
Mehdi M. Kashani
My perverse compassion had destroyed all traces of a once-in-a-lifetime trip.
Wild Unknown Country
Kait Heacock
Everything is cosmically predestined when you are stoned. She put off the trip as long as she could, eating three-day old pasta out of Tupperware. This is what they mean by mind-numbing. This is some strong shit.
Three Poems
Tasha Coryell
Benjamin Franklin’s wife rubbed his paper fingers all over her body, saying, "I’ve got you now, Sweet Baby, I’ve got you now.”
We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Harold Stallworth
A Tribe Called Quest
We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Released: November 11, 2016
Label: Epic Records
Length: 61 minutes, 16 songs
All of my favorite people are
Near Nature, Near Perfect
Sean Towey
Do you remember everything I said last night? she asked.
You mean do I remember you crying and saying you loved me?