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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He got a nice new haircut. His laryngitis was gone. His heart hurt less and the same with his head.... more

You could still hear the sounds of their screams, over the water, as they tipped over the falls.

When Homer went blind, Langley’s remedy was one hundred oranges a week.

Four teenagers named “Phil” were tired of their dads not being rich.

“It is very frustrating to have a poor dad,” said... more

Sterling-Silver Crook-Handle Bespoke Umbrella with Silk Canopy: $2,295

We hope that you never need use this umbrella. ... more

Note: Below is the style sheet for my novel In the House... more

Pingo went first. He always did. The rest of us stood at the top of the slope over the place where the sewer pipes from town... more

On her bike in the rain, Sally could not shake the bus. The double-decker advanced no more confidently than... more

Lou Reed was at our party last night. I think. Couldn’t ID him clearly—with the dark, smoke, and all that constant shifting.... more

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, 8… A... more

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

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

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