Fiction |
“June 19, 2865”
“Air-crafts peppered the sky with a clear mandate: showcase the moment enslaved Americans learned of their freedom …”
Fiction |
“Capital”
“It is true that, for a time, the Wikipedia page for Noble County, Indiana claimed that it was the meth capital of the world, but, says the county’s Chief Information Technology Officer, Fortunately, it’s easy to correct such mistakes …”
Fiction |
“How I Became A Writer”
“My friend pulled to the side of the road, and we checked the tires and underneath to see if we had broken something loose or were leaking fluid. All was OK until we heard the moaning and whistling.”
Fiction |
“Yield to the charm of catastrophe …”
“Radical doubt appoints us to the public institution of the soul. The surface of attention stripped of sense and elasticity, we have no greater recourse than replacing our invention of a vigorous transcendence with a lazy null …”
Fiction |
“A Large Body of Water Could Symbolize Deep Emotions” and “Intimacy Of”
“One morning she woke floating. That is, her room was filled with water as if it had been sealed — caulked, a shower, but a room, and the room as bathtub, and the shower head switched on …”
Fiction |
“Lluvia Sin Agua”
“There was a rumor that today at five the camion-cisterna would return to their barrio. The big truck that sells water to the areas outside of the city that don’t have a water system. Ever since the water shortage started, the trucks came to el barrio less and less, until eventually it was just once a week.”
Fiction |
“Said”
“He said the police wouldn’t believe what he’d said if he told them he’d blacked out afterwards. He said he was worried the police would think he’d abused his son.”
Fiction |
“When The Curtain Went Up …” — an excerpt from The Pine Islands
“The kabuki dancer moved in millimetres, he required many minutes to open his fan even halfway, it was like watching an amoeba for entertainment …”
Fiction |
“Breath Versus Sound”
“The flyer had read simply, ‘meditation group.’ There’d been nothing about chanting, nothing advertising that this might be a cult.”
Fiction |
“Foreign Body”
“She thought, it’s hard being a foreign body these days. She thought, if it were up to me, I’d move from one body to the next, making a home out of everybody.”
Fiction |
“Weapons” and “The Sentence”
“The woman kept talking about passion; her four kids were her greatest passion, she said, but also her thriving real estate business, that was her passion, too.”
Fiction |
“At The Last”
“‘I don’t want to be married anymore.’ Is that how he said it? Or was it the harder, the more particular, ‘I don’t want to be married to you anymore’? He doesn’t remember.”
Fiction |
“Fisher Queen,” “High Priestess” and “The Tale of the Plague Doctor”
“… until one day I go to the spring house and there is a man in the water, naked, with silver minnows darting around his face, moss streaming around him …”
Fiction |
“The vibraphone of God”
“The Kid, he had drive. He would flip what records he had until his dad could take him out to see more stacks.”
Fiction |
“The Destroyer Is Forced to Confront His Inner Hoarder” and “The Destroyer Packs Peanut Butter Sandwiches in His Daughter’s Lunch”
“Why did the Destroyer need to keep a bookmark from a long-closed bookstore or a hand-painted Russian doll that had jumped in his things and watched over him from a shelf?”