The 2016 NANO Prize Opens Tomorrow!

The 2016 NANO Prize, awarding publication and $1,000 to a previously unpublished work of fiction 300 words or fewer, opens tomorrow and will be judged by Kellie Wells!…

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Visit NANO Fiction at Writefest in Houston!

Visit NANO Fiction at Writefest: a week-long writers festival taking place February 22nd-28th, 2016 in Houston, TX, hosted by Writespace, Houston’s grassroots nonprofit literary arts center. NANO…

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Five Questions with Christopher Anthony

Moira McAvoy: Can you shed any light on “Like the ‘h’ in ‘uh-oh’,” the title of your piece in issue 9.1? My personal theory is…

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Every Place Is a Body

When I knock on my boyfriend’s door in the middle of the night and tell him I’m leaving him for Lansing he mumbles something about…

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I Am A Monster Again

When my heart is a real thing you wear like a ring I say MY HEART IS A TOOL OF DEMOLITION. You see this is…

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I have a friend–

I have a friend who desperately wants to get married. But you can tell just from looking at her that she is not the marrying type….

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In Omaha

I cracked my heart on the kitchen table. I did it two weeks ago because I wanted to see inside of it. Everyone says you’ve…

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If We Were Someone Else

My father would’ve worn faded work-jeans: picking out a different pair every morning from his cycle of Wranglers, each of them bearing the circles of Copenhagen…

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They Say That Doors Will Open Soon As You Find The Missing Key

When fire eats the corner house, I walk a different way. I don’t like the bones of it, how easily the snow blows through. There is…

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The Kitchen

The sun in September is a hammer, is a circular saw. You were using a belt sander on the Saltillo tile in the kitchen. I wanted…

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