Showing results for September, 2023
Bombs Bursting In Air: From New York to the Crystal Coast with the Wartime Author
Derek Maine
Literature is happening all of the time, all around us, all at once.
Waiting Through the Ones Who Came After You
Ella Schmidt
That was my youth: I developed a sickness, a ruinous crush on the man at the filling station
You have the ass of a fully grown cherub
Coleman Bomar
When a cherub grows up, he hates angels.
Rejecting Beauty Like Nico and Baudelaire
Vanessa Aricco
We chased the tail laid before us. Scratching and sniffing our way to pain. We took turns leaving consciousness for a few seconds.
Evel Knievels
md wheatley
I was driving down the freeway listening to Third Eye Blind way too loud
The Horoscope
Hayden Church
My friend asks if I believe in / gay marriage
As the World Echoes
Laine Derr
I was stationed in Osh, a forty minute flight south of the capital. I had
a decent sized apartment
You're Not in Love You're Just High
Lilly Grainger
1. A bottle of orange wine – half a packet of cigarettes.
2. You caught at the bar the space so crowded that people were practically caught under your armpits – grinning nervously, two pina coladas in hand.
3. A kitchen dance – or two.
4. Luther Vandross.
William Burroughs and Sheila Heti on a post-harcore band tour bus, Dante as tour manager, Italo Calvino the support band: A review of Geoff Rickly's debut novel Someone Who Isn't Me
Adelaide Faith
Part I of the book is titled Forest.
Future Present
Brad Phillips
Bobby was going down, not on a woman or a man but fast and with extreme force into the frost covered asphalt of a Holiday Inn parking lot, five minutes from the Detroit airport.
The Redhead
S.H. Woodgeard
My father is talking fast, telling me how the redhead is waiting for him.
Headphones
Katie Frank
Once her parents were reliably asleep she helped herself to a long hot shower, a respite which was what she imagined drugs must be like.
Spotted
Reilly Tuesday
Gone, like T9 texting, is the once exciting novelty of being important, popular, scandalous
Yet another person who doesn't give a shit about your existence
Jessica Almereyda
This act of attention lifts you momentarily out of your debilitating amiss-malaise.
Good Enough for Government Work: Becoming a Cam Girl
Brittany Micka-Foos
One night—which was, as it turned out, my last night camming
The Olfacteur
Eric Sacks
“Must have been rich kids,” says Al. “A lot harder to make money staying anonymous.”