October 13, 2014 | Poetry
A request to the new tenant
Ilan Mochari
A request to the new tenant
Walls bare but for paint & hooks, floors bare but for stains & nails,
we leave insides as we find them; yet of neighbors &
October 10, 2014 |
Life before Boyhood
Victor Freeze
I’m 23-years-old going through a mid-life crisis. Well, not quite mid-life considering I’m convinced I have less than seven years left to live.
October 9, 2014 |
Tom Sizemore and the Heat Death of the Universe
Sean Kilpatrick
People want their maniacs explained. But there is no autopsy deft enough to expose how sensually disfigured a mind can get.
October 9, 2014 | Fiction
The New Chief of Cyclops Island Makes Five Promises
Lindsay Merbaum
The afternoon we chose the new chief of Cyclops Island, we stood in a circle at the top of the isle’s highest peak, heads drooping, as we squinted and sweated in the sun. The chief had positioned
Thumbs
Nicole Walker
That ability to dissociate—to look from above. You think it would make us save ourselves, seeing the planet from afar, feeling like with one hand, maybe you could fix it.
Van Halen 2007-2008 Reunion Tour Black T-shirt
Jordan Wiklund
As David Lee Roth straddled a giant inflatable microphone, Alex Van Halen banged out the staccato drum opening of “Hot For Teacher.” Soon, his brother Edward Lodewijk “Eddie” Van Halen turned his
The Art of Music Fiction
an interview with George Clarke, by Aaron Burch
Earlier this year, Tobias Carroll interviewed me and asked, “Your previous book, How to Predict the Weather, had a blurb from Botch/Narrows vocalist Dave Verellen. Has there been any hardcore that’s
Annie: An Outlier in the Filmmaking Career of John Huston
Charlie Riccardelli
Watching the musical Annie is something like a rite of passage for redheaded children. I’ve met so many carrot tops in my life who grew up humming the tunes of Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin,
Three Poems
Tarfia Faizullah
We tell each other the names / of our dead. The cities we live in // are gnawing then burying / the cadavers of opulent dreams.
Realism Seems So Much Harder: A Conversation with James Sutter
Matthew Simmons (@matthewjsimmons)
A few months back, I got the opportunity to (once again) indulge the teenage role-playing geek inside me when I got a short-term contract job editing game materials for Paizo, the company
Hypothetical Empathy Online and the Five Tenants of Rejection
Sean Kilpatrick
When you love someone who won’t love you back, that is your full time job.
A Gaze You Could Meet: My Struggle with My Struggle, Book 2
Andrew Bomback
David Shields: Every artistic movement from the beginning of time is an attempt to figure out a way to smuggle more of what the artist thinks is reality into the work of art.
In the summer of
Garnish and All
Sara Gelston
Liking the world is not easy, though sometimes it is / a large wave that carries you.
Ruth vs. the Klingon
John Haggerty
Gene is fluent in Klingon, comfortable even with the tricky irregular conjugations of the stative verbs
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Sean Kilpatrick
Please go read the reviews for this movie on The Onion, the pissant caboodle that now passes for Roger Ebert.com, and Ain’t It Cool News, yeah, them too, for some reason.
The Fisherman
Hunter Sharpless
At first sight the line, nearly invisible but sometimes catching a ray of sun through the clinging water droplets, ran parallel to the brown water’s surface, from the tip of the pole held by the fisherman standing in the shallows out to unknown depths.
Self Interview with a Hideous Man
Trevor Dodge
But you know, all of us prose writers in the United States have to deal with the shadow he casts and the work he left behind.
To Speak of the Woe that is in Marriage by Robert Lowell
Suzanne Scanlon
Roxana and Robert are in therapy because they argue: about the baby, about the laundry, about therapy, and about therapy, too.