By starting in media res, this piece (view here) asserts a kind of familiarity with readers. However, it skillfully weaves in elements of backstory, ensuring…
I didn’t really know the girl, so I’m not as sad as I should be. And anyway, time makes things blurry. There are people who’ll…
The tide washed in on their legs. It curled and broke over their knees then receded and soaked into the sand. Scott sat with his…
Owens’s piece (view here) explores the sublime, considering the emotional relays between beauty and terror and the contrast between an expansive natural world and a…
The oft-mumbled misanthropic curse, “fucking people” is transformed beautifully in Morgan’s piece (view here). He imagines a world in which sexual intercourse overcomes people in…
Two people fucking on a table, near a professional building. A person fucking near a bayou. Three really big people in a car, fucking to…
Writing a normal situation into a strange one can be a fun way to turn a story on its head. In “45 Walker Street” (view…
As Julia approached 45 Walker Street, she thought she got the address wrong. The building had no windows and the door looked plain. She rang…
You found me that first night in the bar across the plaza from Teatro Juárez. You talked. I drank wine, watched the fútbol and the…
Amyx’s piece (view here) departs from the typical travelogue in that it focuses more on the speaker’s haphazard traveling companions than the destination. Although the…