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People Resent You For It
Ardith Bravenec
Look, you smile too much or too little, both at the wrong times, and people don’t like you.
Socrates and The Common Cuckoo
Roz Ray
You know you’re in the shit when you’re looking to fortune cookies for encouragement
How To Fall In Love
Emily Lackey
Sign up for Match.com. You’ve heard it works. You’ve heard for one out of every three marriages, the couple meets online.
On Not Going for a Beer
Hannah Dow
And she doesn’t know a word of German, except “bier.”
Three Shorts
Rebekah Bergman
I saw myself on the Jumbotron. Locked eyes on my eyes looking elsewhere.
Catch Up Over Drinks or Coffee
Lisa Locascio
It will be great to hear how you have been! Hope we can get to everything in the seven seconds I have allotted our interaction.
Three Clocks
Kristen Felicetti
The narrator of Ben Lerner’s 10:04 goes to see The Clock at Lincoln Center in New York. The Clock was at Lincoln Center from July 13, 2012 to August 1, 2012, but in the book’s acknowledgements, Lerner explains that time in the novel does not always correspond to time in the world. This creates a sort of magical New York where Occupy Wall Street, The Clock, and Hurricane Irene can all be happening practically at the same time.
The Boxers
Jen Logan Meyer
One time, a pair of blue Tattersalls, two Sigma Chis home from Clemson. Two, again: faded blackwatch shorts and a stretchy lavender thong, smelled like Obsession. Just that one time.
They Reminisce Over You
Tyrese Coleman
Corbin was listening to Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s T.R.O.Y. and thinking of Trina McIver when shot inside the bodega on Fourth Street.
Two Presidents
Kyle Ellingson
In my country, says the bulkier, pastier, frowning president, journalism students are admitted to university according to their eloquence in abbreviating my biography.
Invisalign: A Product Review
Katie M. Flynn
I’m just gonna say it. Invisalign is bullshit.
TOMMY SUAREZ, DEPORTISTA ESTUPIDO
David Solorzano
Midway through the school year one of the kids in one of the other sixth grade classes hung himself, so we couldn’t call the game we played in the mornings ‘suicide’ after that.
A Single Happened Thing
Daniel Paisner
It was the summer of Monica Lewinsky and Mark McGwire and Armageddon. I was on a short business trip to Philadelphia—a handholding, as it is known in the office. I was sent, via Amtrak, to coddle
Lines Come Last
Richard Johnston
When I first met Dawn, I didn’t know what a lexicographer was. I had to look it up. Later I admitted I hadn’t even realized that people still made dictionaries.
“Of course they do,” Dawn
How to Eat a Sunflower Seed
Evan Lavender-Smith
Otherwise you'll end up with a mouthful of husk shards.
Last Pitch
Peter Piliere
It is the last inning of the last game of a mediocre season for a mediocre team.
Californication, Special AWP Edition
Daniel A. Hoyt
Season 6, season finale: Hank Moody attends AWP. Moral tragedy ensues.
Where in the World Is Lowe Simmons?
Victor F. Glass
48 hours after his mysterious disappearance Lowe uploaded the first of many filter-less photographs to come to his, once deactivated and now reactivated, Instagram account.
What We Did Not Lose in the Fire
Ashlie Hyer
But this whole thing is wrong. Your hair is uneven around the edges where you cut it this morning.
Recent Books
Pregaming Grief
Danielle Chelosky
Is this new relationship self-sabotage in disguise, or is it the cure?
Backwardness
Garielle Lutz
Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Not be be missed!