September 6, 2014 |
True Life: I Married Scott McClanahan
Juliet Escoria
One morning I wake up and there are over thirty new texts on my phone, all from him. While I was sleeping, we got into an argument, made up, and then started fighting again, all without my knowledge or participation. Right now he is breaking up with me.
September 5, 2014 | Interview
elizabeth ellen calls aaron burch on all his shit
Elizabeth Ellen
let’s start with my most pressing question, one you haven’t answered IRL: WHY DID YOU TURN DOWN BRAD LISTI?
September 5, 2014 |
GREAT MOMENTS IN CINEMATIC DRINKING: The World’s End
Matt Sailor
Simon Pegg would kill for a beer. Will. Has. Is. Over and over again. An hour into The World's End, halfway through a pub crawl he's been waiting twenty years to finish, he engages in a beautifully
September 4, 2014 | Poetry
Five Animal Poems
Cassandra de Alba
Before, the possums’ noise had been an angry hissing, but now their voices were becoming sweet, even musical, the world of them trilling and humming into their endless, private night.
Your Call is Important to Us: Ballad of a Telemarketer
Shannon McLeod
“My son was murdered last year. His bride murdered him.”
3 Lazy Wolf Comics
Alex Jiang
Hmmm... When Butcher Bear was murdered, he was probably cutting meat.
Pap Smear for Beerfest
Sean Kilpatrick
You can’t ban my books for saying this shit because no one bought them anyway. Some guys have all the luck.
Cold in July / The Rover
Sean Kilpatrick
How they say something doesn’t wink at an audience, this caws its eyelids off. What we got? Mad Men? True Detective? Those shows are about acting. (Sometimes about writing in service of plot. Oh, True Detective, almost, so close until the final explanation cribs us all.)
Ron Allen’s Entertainer Zero Machine at Hasting’s Ballroom, Detroit, 2004
Sean Kilpatrick
Where the fuck are the collected plays of Ron Allen? The police have won, that’s where.
REFLECTING ON MY FIRST YEAR OF SOBRIETY
Jordan Castro
I had my bags packed and was getting ready to leave with two insane-seeming girls who offered me sex in exchange for a ride to Cleveland when a few patients stopped me and essentially pushed me into the lecture hall. I don't know why I didn't put up more of a fight -
Safe Tangents: My Struggle with My Struggle, Book 1
Andrew Bomback
I googled “Karl Ove Knausgaard AND Nicholson Baker” and didn’t find much. A review of My Struggle from The Monthly, an Australian magazine, compared some of Knaugaard’s reflections to “Seinfeld’s
Backyard Poem # 13
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
I remember Marc said, you’re wet just because of the humidity.
Horrible Things Happen
Adam Lefton
Can you teach an eighteen-year-old trauma?
Ultra Light
Sam Virzi
Pretty girls appeared from behind huge wooden poles below the boardwalk.
Atop the Ferris
Ryan King & Allen Byrns
We ride in pairs to the stars and look up but flourescent rainbow strips make the everlasting dim.
Infestations
Steve Anwyll
Cockroaches
This was a sign as far as I was concerned. The high water mark. The North American standard for being a shitbag.
A plague of the poor and dirty.
So when we started to see
The Quandary of The Pointy Objects Annex
Zachary Tyler Vickers
It’s an uphill battle to transition to a lifestyle of blunt objects.
Water Pipes Made Wavy From Heat In The Sunshine Estate
Carabella Sands
I ask the sun to call me at night on my walk home. Everyday I become a little more scared. I recognize people and cars and it makes me nervous. My mother told me girls are most likely to be