Z’s phone rang. He picked it up and said hello. The person on the other end asked if he was Dr. Schlesinger. After a pause, Z said, “Yes, this is he.” 

That statement, of course, being a lie. 

We crowd around the flame, we extend our naked hands, we feel the joints in our fingers warm and crack. The smoke stains our jackets and hats with its smell.

Gabriel Blackwell’s been busy. In the past two... more

1. Prayer, according to the Encyclopedia of Occult and Parapsychology, is a “means for humans to make contact... more

I have been trying very hard / to consider the window’s pane, / but life keeps occurring beyond it. / Two gangs who were firing .45s / at each other across our busy street / inadvertently shot a lady in the forehead.

“Hello ma’am. I presume you are the lady of the house. Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Mr. Basal and I believe... more

A lady doesn’t need makeup unless it’s the war paint she’s putting on to end me. 

Juicy

            “This album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to... more

White light from the television brought me here.

Everything in this store is very far away from everything else in this... more

Yesterday, Barry Graham favored us with his Top 10 Cities to Get Drunk... more

Last week, Barry Graham favored us with... more

Day one, just a few hours in, and the first scratches from his insides, just a little suggestion: only a nibble.  He tries to kill the animal... more

FRIDAY

8:36 p.m.: I arrive at the intersection of Oak and Broadway... more

Many young novelists have been gravitating toward a movement known as the “Real Newism.” Adherents of the Real Newism assert that... more

Yesterday, Barry Graham favored us with his Top 10 Cities to Get Drunk In,... more

We all know what getting drunk means and... more

you want back to ‘93: to soft skin / & nights driving down dirt road / & the desire to still be— / breathing, you want to say / but instead you think of all the things you wish / she was not

I sat and bawled for half an hour after finishing Hill William in one swift read through this morning, beginning to end in an hour. 

Buckhorn Golf Course

36 FM 473, Comfort, TX 78013

4 out of 5 stars

This place is a real gem. Just imagine the... more

When Rob sent out pictures of Sophia, innocuous prints of her at a bar or a party, he found himself getting... more

Walter Matthau, we assume, has had a bad day. Or a bad night. Or both. Hell, back it up... more

You’re beating him, he needs to protect / the plate and his at-bat, throw something / outside the zone! something he can’t / possibly hit, think how afraid he must be / of you.

I drove to the STD Clinic. I walked in and told a woman in an office through a window slightly larger than a fast food drive-thru window... more

Did you know mites are accruing primo destinies beneath my fur? Their spit glues each lover I’ve loved deeper into the next. I am a... more

Interrupting

      and above the dryer on the back porch she let hang three pieces of purple glass—sometime broken—taped together... more