Fiction |
“Snug Harbor,” “They roam the bay unloved,” and “A comet blazed across the sky”
“… and when I turn the map over I see that it tells you nothing about coming ashore, and everything about where to drown.”
Fiction |
“Collaboration Incidents” and “Liz Phair, unexiled”
“Once, Beatriz had loved. Now she was transcended by the Paradise she privileged into an action that humans could not name. It made her whitehot, and everybody saw it.”
Fiction |
“The Seventh Degree of Freedom”
“He said goodnight and went back aft to join my mother in the cockpit. I nestled into the fabric, facing skyward, glad to be out of the stifling cabin.”
Fiction |
“Should we talk about it?”
“A woman I used to live with lives inside the internet. We still live in the same city. I go around the streets looking for her, but each time I catch a glimpse, she slips around the pixelated corners. A black scarf, a yellow shoe, a thread of yellowed silver hair mucking up the perfect blue pool of frozen sidewalk gunk.”
Fiction |
from Vienna
“I was forty-one years old, wore a hijab, and looked stylish in it. I spoke French, but I didn’t apply for a visa to a country that spoke the language I’d learned, because I found something vastly more entertaining here.”
Fiction |
“More Harm Than Good” and “Late August Edition”
“My roommate’s dissertation included a multimodal component where I was asked to pee on an upholstered wing chair. Even after a quart of Hawaiian Punch I was unable to perform.”
Fiction |
“to team” and “to meme”
“Gander argues that the meme wasn’t about the company. ‘It’s just like … a funny picture.'”
Fiction |
“June 19, 2865”
“Air-crafts peppered the sky with a clear mandate: showcase the moment enslaved Americans learned of their freedom …”
Fiction |
“Capital”
“It is true that, for a time, the Wikipedia page for Noble County, Indiana claimed that it was the meth capital of the world, but, says the county’s Chief Information Technology Officer, Fortunately, it’s easy to correct such mistakes …”
Fiction |
“How I Became A Writer”
“My friend pulled to the side of the road, and we checked the tires and underneath to see if we had broken something loose or were leaking fluid. All was OK until we heard the moaning and whistling.”
Fiction |
“Yield to the charm of catastrophe …”
“Radical doubt appoints us to the public institution of the soul. The surface of attention stripped of sense and elasticity, we have no greater recourse than replacing our invention of a vigorous transcendence with a lazy null …”
Fiction |
“A Large Body of Water Could Symbolize Deep Emotions” and “Intimacy Of”
“One morning she woke floating. That is, her room was filled with water as if it had been sealed — caulked, a shower, but a room, and the room as bathtub, and the shower head switched on …”
Fiction |
“Lluvia Sin Agua”
“There was a rumor that today at five the camion-cisterna would return to their barrio. The big truck that sells water to the areas outside of the city that don’t have a water system. Ever since the water shortage started, the trucks came to el barrio less and less, until eventually it was just once a week.”
Fiction |
“Said”
“He said the police wouldn’t believe what he’d said if he told them he’d blacked out afterwards. He said he was worried the police would think he’d abused his son.”
Fiction |
“When The Curtain Went Up …” — an excerpt from The Pine Islands
“The kabuki dancer moved in millimetres, he required many minutes to open his fan even halfway, it was like watching an amoeba for entertainment …”