AMY: Hello, Victor. Thank you for agreeing to talk with me again. As with our last interview, I'd like to start... more
The sun wasn't even fully up yet and there I was, on some stranger's roof, about to begin work for the day, when this girl, maybe four... more
All his life the boy threw knives. In his youth he threw knives only in his mind, pretended himself the central... more
Take it from inside you and draw it out. Do it before it decides you are not what you seem to be and, as a result, holds you up... more
In high school, dating Randall "Big Randy" Barton was a rite of passage for the small population of black girls at our... more
The drinking life has been rendered in print on so many occasions, it seems unlikely that anyone could find... more
Molly Gaudry yanked me back from a depressing precipice. For the past three weeks I've been immersed in the world of... more
Carol Gipson had acne and was the slightest bit pudgy but she seemed like someone who would turn beautiful... more
I put on my suit. It's a business suit. I'm a businessman and I mean business. I mean 'business' with a big 'B' and an ampersand.... more
With apologies to Jorge Luis Borges' "Borges and I"
The other one, the one called Melcher, is the fuckup.
I travel a lot... more
Lucky
All these people. How did they do it? Well, many did not. Broke as eggs on sidewalks, sister. They were walking... more
Kyle Beachy's debut novel The Slide is the kind of first novel that makes you happy for the presence of books in the... more
I first read J. Robert Lennon in a short-lived lit mag out of Philly called Night Rally. I picked up a copy of the... more
penguins
For the penguins it is cold and sometimes it is cold like that in my bedroom, where I sleep, and the covers that... more
Slut Whore has every Barbie on the market, lined up sitting on her windowsill along her bedroom wall, and all the best clothes and... more
Near a mound of fresh dirt under a sprawling oak tree. Cannons rumble in the distance. Lounging next to... more
My friend Brandon has packed his friend's Jeep with provisions of snowballs, dried turkey, Finlandia. Observing the heaped... more
Larry Fondation is the author of four books, all of which display his mastery at quilting micro and short fictions... more
Before the blue was sailed by Columbus and his greedy, maritime ilk, before... more
Early Morning
Debra Jims dreams of Kool-Aid. The juice leaves a red mustache above her lip. Men around her have mustaches too, real... more
"...as soon as a member of the family has breathed his or her last a younger member of the household... is told to visit the hives,... more
The Piano Thief
It'll take him all of a month, longer if he's in love. But always at least those thirty days.... more
Jedediah Berry's first novel The Manual of Detection came out in February from the Penguin Press to uniformly... more
Georgia Ambler used to jog on Thursdays while Jake and I shot baskets in the drive. "You're outta shape, old man," Jake... more
When they told us that the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, had been destroyed by a crude but powerful bomb — TERRORIST,... more
Do you really spend 80% of your free time knitting?
Yes. I've knit during a blackout and a brownout, on the back seat... more
Fourteen years old, Thisbe Casper has begun riding her bicycle around Hyde Park looking for God. Before each school day... more
