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Spontaneously Fermented
Ken Weaver
The Ship: Behind the bar is a small window, and behind the window, a small room. On the left side, stacked within metal lattices, are wooden barrels tilted on their sides and filled with unknown
Granny Summons the Alligator
Aaron Alford
It’s a different gator every year, but we talk like it’s the same one.
Three Words I Learned from Computer Games
Devan Goldstein
I remember one robot was called a SENTRY and it guarded the door...
A Recap of the Philadelphia Eagles at the Cleveland Browns In the Form of a Review of Old Crow Reserve Bourbon
Justin St. Germain
It’s 10:57 Albuquerque time, eight minutes before kickoff, and I’m already flustered. I hosted a party last night, which means I woke up this morning with a clogged kitchen drain and beer bottles
On Fear (And, OK, Also Steak)
Amy Butcher
I was twenty-two the year I realized I was scared of everything.
I Love This Let Me Sleep
Delaney Nolan
Welcome to Camp Bread Loaf. Put your apron on.
The Day the Music Should Have Died: Game 7 of the 1979 World Series
Benjamin Lyon
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
Do you know the song “We are Family” by Sister Sledge? Of course you do; you don’t even need to think about it. When you were nine, in your early
HOBART Picks the 2011 Season
Stewart O'Nan,
Author of Emily, Alone, Last Night at the Lobster, and Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (with Stephen
Seventh Inning Stretch
Alice Lowe
America’s Game: It is the place where memory gathers.
– Walt Whitman
1.
My mother, Brooklyn-born and raised, used to tell me that if the Dodgers had been in the World Series in 1943,
It's Like I Hit a Homerun or Strikeout Every Time...
David Kramer
When I was a kid, my dad took me to a Mets game at Shea on my birthday. I remember walking up the ramps and looking outside the stadium, past the corrugated blue and orange panels that hung
A Short Essay in Which We Celebrate Whitney Pastorek's Keen Eye for Beautiful Things
Sean Carman
In May of 2003 there appeared, in a small corner of the internet, a literary webzine called "Pindeldyboz."
Pindeldyboz was more than just another webzine with a name that doesn't mean anything
Redefining All-You-Can-Eat: Our 14 Hour Challenge to Ryan's Steakhouse
Blake Butler
It is 1:38 pm the day after the event and the best way I can think of to describe the way I feel is: food hangover. I'm dressed in the loosest clothing I own with a throbbing, deep-seated headache
The Ducks of Santa Nella
Aaron Gilbreath
I came to the San Joaquin Valley to see the migratory ducks at California's San Luis National Wildlife Refuge. I found as much excitement in the truck stop town of Santa Nella.
Stuck halfway
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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!