Volume 8 Number 2
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperback, 208 pages Stuart Dybek’s Ecstatic Cahoots is a two-hundred page collection of fifty stories. They’re “bite-sized,” according to the market-…
In The Secret Life of Objects, Dawn Raffel treats readers to dozens of flash nonfictions revolving around household bric-a-brac. Each object, which titles a chapter,…
You were a friendless child capturing moths in glass jars, telling them the names of kids at your school under your breath, your mother teaching…
You’re flying from Baltimore to Dallas, and you tell yourself twenty chips—that’s one serving, one-hundred-and-forty calories, not bad. So you begin with an emphatic inaugural…
When the sperm whale carcass washed up onshore we held a festival we called “Whale Daze ‘72!” There were games and rides and whale-shaped funnel…
A fuzzy trunk reached across Dr. Elisabeth Naylor’s shoulder and ruffled her hair. “Good job you didn’t do that when CNN was here.” She gave…
So we open a business, hoping to do the bootstraps thing. You know, work hard, elbow grease, lube to fuck someone over before they’re fired…
You must understand, the ways of lions are complex. We meant no harm. When the lion—the original, true lion—began coughing, we gave him syrups and…
While I wallow in waters alone, your tail shrinks into a stump below your spine. Some nights, we still wrestle inside a bedroom with papered…
Some years ago, I applied for a job selling suits. The manager hired me because I am not a good-looking man but I look good…