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Für Elske and the landlord, Mr Koen Leeuwens
Arturo Desimone
The attic room in the student town of Ordrecht went for 365, 52 euros monthly, not including the safety-deposit, called borg in Dutch.
“Lucky boy, just too late. Because we have crisis in Holland,
Playground
Andrew Hahn
In the mornings, the woman sees her husband off to work in her night dress, sometimes with curlers in her hair. After he leaves, she always lights a cigarette and stands with the glass-paned storm door cracked open. I can tell the inside of their house smells like knock-off Estée Lauder and menthol smoke.
Beefy Appetizer
Ila Kumar
My professor is French. You can tell by her voice, and because she just told us that she and her husband met through adultery, as if it was an app on your phone.
The After Party
Ruby Sutton
Sarah has just been promoted at the publishing house, and I realize she thinks she is doing her job at this party
Four Ways to Handle Adrian's Relapse
Kate Wisel
Smile in heavy make-up, feeling like a pill is stuck in your throat.
SOLO PLAYER LOB
Peppy Ooze
A snag with Monday is I have to neck all three of my Subtext in one go. Each under the tongue. The man who administers, Sven, can’t be arsed to say why but he’s a pure archcretin.
Two Stories
David Kuhnlein
I imagined finding him hanged beneath the creak of a taut rope as often as I didnt.
IN RELATIONSHIP
Greg Gerke
That’s why we are “in relationship,” to deliberately alienate each other’s unhappiness—to build an incredible shrine to unhappiness that would be seen for miles in a flatland, if such a shrine could be visible.
Mr. Binky's Adult Superstore
Jazz Boothby
I spent the next couple hours grooming myself and getting drunk. I was sick all the time back then.
Mirror Mirror On The Wall, Who’s The Biggest Asshole Of Them All
Steve Anwyll
I blast the airhorn before the lump on the floor knows what’s going on.
Jersey Devil’s Breath
Anna Krivolapova
Every winter, the Jersey Shore freezes into an old car in the driveway, tarped and bricked until May.
Maximo the Magnificent
Adam Johnson
How they stabbed me and got away with it!
How to Cruise When You Know Nothing
Z.H. Gill
He came down my throat, I slurped it all up.
Partial Suicide
Troy James Weaver
Everything tended to with love bears fruit they told me.
Mrs Narcissus
James Nulick
How much would you pay to have an honest conversation with yourself?
Sixty Percent
Will Isaac
He turns up late to almost all of his final exams, answers whatever questions he feels like and defaces the rest of the paper.
Natalie, My Chaperone
Cash Compson
I lie in bed a long time before sleep comes. I wonder if I love Natalie or if I’m just so bored and I’m turning fleeting, tiny moments into full scale cinematic affairs in my head.
Bath Salts
Andrea Taylor
I can tell she’s not convinced. But I’ve been Googling symptoms: confusion, nausea, loss of appetite, changes in sleep patterns, visual hallucinations, erratic behavior.
The Alcoholic Babysitter
Katie Frank
She breathed deeply and saw an image of the naughtiest kids in the afterschool program laughing at her.
Full Metal Jacket
Steven Arcieri
My neighbor let his Rottweiler roam without a leash again and I’m an inch away from planting razor blades inside my tomatoes.
Back to School 2
Matthew Davis
At the head of the conference table sat a man scrolling on his phone, whom Michael intuited was the leader of this secret society.
A LOW-HANGING TOWEL
Garielle Lutz
He had a little radio, and on the mornings it snowed, he listened over and over to the lists of school closings until he knew them by heart: Kellerville area, Longstead area, Mount Holly area, all the outlying place-names, all the Our Lady of’s. Sometimes there was only a two-hour delay, and he wondered what it must be like, to have the boon of two extra hours like that.
Recent Books
Pregaming Grief
Danielle Chelosky
Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.
Backwardness
Garielle Lutz
Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks!
Dear Nico: the Diary of Elizabeth Ellen (Nov, 2018-Feb, 2020)
Elizabeth Ellen
"Is this the actual diary you wrote at the time? The diary reads a lot like a novel, with its motifs of the murderess, the acupuncturist, etc." -Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted and The Complete Gary Lutz