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June 21, 2016 | Nonfiction

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Alexis Pope

Things to remember:

Ghost Deer, Ohio

Ray St. Ray

June 20, 2016 |

LO AND BEHOLD, REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD

Sean Kilpatrick

Not every cry is a cry for help.

June 20, 2016 | Poetry

A Giant Cat Poem

Noah Cicero

 

There is not one song
in my YouTube 
favorites 
sad enough
to endure this night
wearing my khaki
work pants 
with a small kitty
crawling on my lap

The internet is

June 17, 2016 | Poetry

i can't watch tv anymore ever basically

Paige Allen


the cat and i are watching HBO pretending time passes much faster than it does like how this guy has been in prison for 52 days but it's only been 11 minutes

i can't look at people on tv

June 17, 2016 |

My Life as Dad

Peter Witte

I don't like the shirt you're wearing.
That's no reason to call me stupid.

June 17, 2016 |

THE LOBSTER

Sean Kilpatrick

A sponsorship for every spree.

June 16, 2016 | Fiction

Socrates and The Common Cuckoo

Roz Ray

You know you’re in the shit when you’re looking to fortune cookies for encouragement

June 15, 2016 | Poetry

SEARCHING FOR PETCO

Skylar Moore

 

For three days, I drive the city in search of PetCo. Day one, I tell myself that PetCo will be easy
to find. I don't find PetCo. Day two, I use the GPS, but despite reading the

June 14, 2016 | Fiction

How To Fall In Love

Emily Lackey

Sign up for Match.com. You’ve heard it works. You’ve heard for one out of every three marriages, the couple meets online.

June 13, 2016 | Poetry

An Offertory, on a Small Court

Julia Dixon Evans

We turned off the game and drove to the mountains, a dead dog in the backseat

June 13, 2016 | Nonfiction

Daughter of Wands: Notes on Hilda Doolittle, Tarot, and the Spiritual Marketplace 

Rebecca van Laer

The walls, statues, and shrines of the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum are covered in offerings to the spirits—or loa—represented within. Plaques have pennies and dimes resting on their frames; there is a wishing stump filled with dollar bills. And there is lip-gloss everywhere.

June 10, 2016 | Poetry

two poems

Alana Folsom

 

 

June 9, 2016 | Fiction

On Not Going for a Beer

Hannah Dow

And she doesn’t know a word of German, except “bier.”

June 8, 2016 | Poetry

ATMOSPHERE

Philip Dinolfo

 

One day I came across an inverted map of the Western Hemisphere. Cape Horn was in Alaska's usual position. I felt very disturbed, like air was flooding into the space above North America and

June 8, 2016 | Interview

Finding Your Place Via Place: an Interview with Zachary Tyler Vickers

Zachary Tyler Vickers & Pat Siebel

Likely I’ll fail to properly introduce Zachary Tyler Vickers’ debut, Congratulations on Your Martyrdom!, so I’ll make no fancy words about it: this collection of interconnected stories—comprised of

June 7, 2016 | Poetry

all gods & mysteries

Aran Donovan

 

love becoming, like an apple,
this requires time, starred
blossom, then summer, the attention
of bees, grown men
bow their heads, concentrating
on the national anthem
in stadiums

June 6, 2016 | Poetry

Elegy with arms folded

Alison Thumel

 

You've told me you feel like a bat.

What you don't mean is your wings.
Or the development of a reflex that draws your ears toward small sounds.

What you do mean is that you're

June 5, 2016 |

Lazy Wolf: The Series (pt. 8)

Alex Jiang

[Previously on... Part 7 :: Part 6 :: Part 5 :: Part 4 :: Part 3 :: Part 2 :: Part 1]

Lt. Pup is now teleporting back to a desolate Earth, where Cat kind is attacking the dogs with tactical

June 3, 2016 | Nonfiction

Sleuth

Alex Ebel

There’s an episode of The Outer Limits where Alyssa Milano plays a college student that eats men whole with her vagina.

June 3, 2016 |

The Truth Always Wants to Be Told: My Struggle with My Struggle, Book 5

Andrew Bomback

After watching the TEDx Talk, I initially thought, “I wonder if everyone who watches that video will try to write a memoir.”

June 2, 2016 | Fiction

@God

Daniel Presley

You write a book with three parts. Sure, a few critics come down hard, but mostly the book is appreciated.

June 1, 2016 | Poetry

three poems

Greg Zorko

brick

once in 2011

someone at a party

offered me rum

mixed with cough medicine

from a 1 liter plastic bottle of generic orange soda

i thought

this will make

May 31, 2016 | Fiction

Three Shorts

Rebekah Bergman

I saw myself on the Jumbotron. Locked eyes on my eyes looking elsewhere.

May 27, 2016 | Nonfiction

Everything in Order

Lori White

A fleet of pickup trucks and a white panel van have taken all the shady spots outside my parents’ house.

May 26, 2016 | Poetry

The World Already Ended At Y2K

Michael Wasson

The computers will run an error the size of oceans howling crazy for the pale moon & will hurtle through our bodies to get there. My brother says the lights across the river will burn out. 

May 25, 2016 | Fiction

Catch Up Over Drinks or Coffee

Lisa Locascio

It will be great to hear how you have been! Hope we can get to everything in the seven seconds I have allotted our interaction.

May 24, 2016 | Poetry

how close

Phillip Spotswood

[practice breathing, talk to snakes, how to suck venom from a wound]

     -february 3, 2012: “I’m getting better at branching out”

May 23, 2016 | Interview

An Interview with Brian Evenson

Michael Deagler

I want as a reader to be transformed and thrown off balance by what I read, and I try to do that for my reader as well.

May 20, 2016 | Fiction

Poseidon

Tyler Barton

Mathias LaFleur: the first Eagles Got Talent contestant ever clapped off stage.

May 19, 2016 | Fiction

Three Clocks

Kristen Felicetti

The narrator of Ben Lerner’s 10:04 goes to see The Clock at Lincoln Center in New York. The Clock was at Lincoln Center from July 13, 2012 to August 1, 2012, but in the book’s acknowledgements, Lerner explains that time in the novel does not always correspond to time in the world. This creates a sort of magical New York where Occupy Wall Street, The Clock, and Hurricane Irene can all be happening practically at the same time.