Once it Hits the Air
Luke Wiget
My Spanish was always too slow to impress my father. I tried not to learn it to spite him. But that was like not swallowing water in your mouth when there’s no place to spit it out.
My Spanish was always too slow to impress my father. I tried not to learn it to spite him. But that was like not swallowing water in your mouth when there’s no place to spit it out.
Good evening. I just ate eggs. Breakfast for dinner, is what Robin called it. Is there such a thing as<a class="more" href="/web_features/vincent-peppers-explains-a-conference-call">... more</a>
The value of a cash gift is on its face, and that, in<a class="more" href="/web_features/hymeneal-in-many-voices-comments-on-the-launch-of-stacie-and-kyle-rsquo-s-wedding-registry">... more</a>
EVERY DAY IS SUNDAY
I go to call her for the ribs recipe but then I think how she doesn't respond to my jokes so I go to<a class="more" href="/web_features/two-short-shorts">... more</a>
Stanley K owns a small radio shop on Forest Avenue in Lakewood.
I walk in, having not seen him in 30<a class="more" href="/web_features/the-uninvited-bar-mitzvah-guest">... more</a>
They must have been in Georgia already. Mile-high pine trees loomed just above titanium light poles. Rain was coming down at the car<a class="more" href="/web_features/going-south">... more</a>
Accompanied a young couple for the euthanization of<a class="more" href="/web_features/selected-entries-from-the-daily-log-of-personal-to-professional-proceedings-by-saul-goodman">... more</a>
The following are direct quotes from the lost episode of Breaking Bad.
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Dear Sir or Madam,
I feel I need to begin by saying I am a longtime lover of your products. As a single mom<a class="more" href="/web_features/los-pollos-hermanos-comment-card">... more</a>
She was The Incorruptible, so named by a senior during the most grueling AP World semester ever. “Just one night off, Ms. L,” whined<a class="more" href="/web_features/grading-bad">... more</a>
At the diner, when David has been allowed to order a cup of coffee and become a thinking person again, he will begin to attempt to<a class="more" href="/web_features/the-diner-scene">... more</a>
from Bombyonder
After the bird flu it wasn’t safe to eat the chicken or the stuffing. Gloves and knives<a class="more" href="/web_features/three-short-shorts-from-bombyonder">... more</a>
Suppose the policeman does not come when you call him for help. So what good is the phone? What good is the policeman?<a class="more" href="/web_features/an-account-of-the-shell">... more</a>
Curation
I told my first lie to a girl with a Hans Christian Andersen name, holding onto the metal bars in the playground<a class="more" href="/web_features/field-guide-for-fools">... more</a>
The three of them were in the car headed eastbound I-90, on their way to Tiny’s Farm, when Millard thought of his first name of<a class="more" href="/web_features/joining-the-circus">... more</a>
The new neighbors were moving vans and glimpses behind curtains. In time, they became an electronic fiction behind a white trellis fence. My dog could smell their vacancies.
My boyfriend cut off my arm while I slept. He had thought the whole thing through months in advance, he told me the next morning.
He slides an open palm up and down wallpaper that appears to depict horsemen and battalions in battle. He presses an ear to it. He tilts a framed print of Caravaggio’s Holofernes away from the wall.
Daniel heard it driving home...
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Jason Phoebe Rusch is a queer writer from the Chicago suburbs. His full-length debut Dualities explores gender and patriarchy from the perspective of a man who was socialized and is currently still read as a woman. He is interested in complication and nuance and messy human failing, his own and that of others.