Showing results for February, 2014
Attempts to Name a Focal Point
Jeff Hardin
Some accounting’s underway, composed of chiding, shifts in tone, redirections. Surely one or two rumors eventually craft a context where they’re true.
Vengeful Ghosts
Natalie Edwards
Recently I came across a paper I wrote in college at the prestigious University of Florida in 1999 about vengeful ghosts.
Bones in the Belly
Candra Kolodziej
The air in the bedroom sags with mist that won’t touch anything. It hangs around the built-in bed, and stationary lamp, and my sisters and Ma. I can’t be in there. The noises are terrible, and the haze smells like evergreens. It makes me homesick.
Three Poems
Rachel Harthcock
I could never / be a girl who wears a bikini top in place of a bra / like all the other girls in South Florida, who put vodka / in their Gatorade bottles and were, I think, much happier...
The Good Book
Cynthia Larsen
Mother is sitting in the kitchen with the Bible and a fresh stack of paper. A cigarette smokes in the ashtray and the sink is full of dishes. “It’s not what you think,” I whisper to the boy I have brought home. Later I will suck his thoughts dry.
Three Stories
C.A. Kaufman
Family Album, Romance and Circumstantial Evidence
Great Moments in Cinematic Drinking: High Fidelity
Matt Sailor
In one of the last scenes of High Fidelity, John Cusack drinks a beer. Actually, he doesn't. And that's kind of the beauty of it. He treats a beer the way I don't think I've ever seen anyone treat
Internal Affairs / Deep Cover
Sean Kilpatrick
Bean cures hetero monogamy of squareness
The Investigators
Willie Fitzgerald
Inside the restaurant two beams of sunlight hit Spencer’s table at seemingly impossible angles. They meet on his butter dish, which has a single olive pit in it. It seems like outside the sun could be doubled.
Three Poems
John Poch
Once, I heard a boxing coach say you don’t punch a thing if you really want to achieve your objective—which is pure harm—you punch through. Since that day, I have often thought of the other side.
The Aquarist
Jacques Debrot
It’s not unheard of now for people to be replaced by look-alikes. Troubled people, mostly. Unhappy people.
THE BIRTH CHAPTER
Scott McClanahan
I have stolen this prayer from my friend Giancarlo Ditrapano.
Not Everyone's On One
Zach Mueller
We can bump / Gucci and Sosa and Future while we sip lean with Sprite, / and talk Drill like Foucault talks about nutjobs, and talk / dying like Chiraq rappers. Like we’ve been there. We / haven’t.
Appraisals
Robert Long Foreman
I went to the Antiques Roadshow with my mother’s green marble frog in the inside pocket of the jacket of the black suit I wore to her funeral that morning. I had taken the frog from her house. I wanted to know what it was worth.
A Face Like She Meditated
Chloe Caldwell
I fell in love with a woman who had a face like she meditated.
An Interview with Mary Miller
Amber Sparks
Mary Miller gets inside heads. I mean this in a non-creepy, invasive way, of course. It's a gift—some writers do wordsmash, some writers do atmospherics, and some writers—like Mary—do
Treasure
Lauren Capet
In the woods beyond the property line, Henry and I find what decades ago used to be a farmer’s burn pile. Under years’ worth of leaf litter and yesterday’s snowfall there are remains, hard things fire could not destroy: twisted and rusted metal and scores of glittering glass bottles.