The scientist entered the mansion through a secret passage, and the dictator and his staff gave him DNA samples and told him to make... more

Things they never tell you when your husband leaves the planet: It’ll happen faster in real-life than it does on TV. 10, 9,... more

In 2010, we published Adam Novy's The Avian Gospels as two volumes, kind of Old and New... more

Dee had pregnant friends back home. She had missed their weddings and now she would miss the births of their children. She felt left... more

In 2010, we published Adam Novy's The Avian Gospels as two volumes, kind of Old and New Testament style.... more

Jerry’s Daddy, looking half dead, sat in the kitchen smoking a Camel and sketching comic faces on a napkin with a stubby... more

Jesse come in from the spot across the way where Daddy had him throw the last of the matchboxes. Daddy let Jesse carry em cause they was... more

When we arrived at our new place on Plankton, the first thing I noticed was all the cages in the neighbor’s yard. Rows... more

Greg had always suspected that had Hitler managed to get into art school, he would have become the Thomas Kinkade of his time. Did it... more

  “They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot / which was a public  ... more

This was a burlesque theater, a two-bit operation that could barely pay off the racketeers and the cops  a place to come into... more

When the governor’s budget cuts hit Eisenhower Middle School, the library’s one of the first targets... more

A new email dings into his box and Miller cringes. Somehow he knows it’s from her, something about the ding – it is insistent,... more

The next morning the phone rings early, five-thirty, definitely not later than six. The birds outside don’t scream... more

There’s been a lot of talk about Executives in the news lately, a lot of mystery and confusion. For the last... more

LAKE ELSINORE WILL HOST THE ONE TRICK PONY This place was one of those places.... more

As a teenager, I had this superficial interest in handguns—I liked how the metal felt against my skin. I had never learned to shoot one, however, nor did I really intend to know at that young age.

The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the... more

Walter White is looking in the mirror when he hears a key in the door of his condo. He is smoothing a deep maroon shirt,... more

Everyone watched him walk to the guy. Everyone saw. They were all watching with their big stupid eyes that wouldn't... more

Jose Canseco was listening to a county music song on his portable cassette player. It was ninety-seven degrees on the public golf course.... more

How're you gonna live, she said, if you don't immerse?

Inside, in the unforeseen, where the sounds of dust susurrus, we glimpse rainbowed light above the shadows. Will we ever reach there, we ask?

Wonders I. Wonders we.

Excerpt from Centers for Disease Control: Obesity in Central Florida, February 2019. Wes Urban, 32 years of age, 298 lbs. We... more

You stare down at the departed. The fulgurites of your heart chattering. She was, man, an episode. An emitter of staggering forked words...