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Apology + Opportunity

Tommy, Janna, I’m going to stop you right there. Now when I say the feelings you’re describing are exceptional, I mean nuke the moon. Your…

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2010 Houston Indie Book Fest

Through a collaboration with The Menil Collection, NANO Fiction and Gulf Coast are proud to host this year’s Houston Indie Book Festival, April 3 at…

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Spring 2010 NANO Reading Series

The Editors of NANO Fiction are delighted to bring back a second season of the NANO Reading series at Kaboom Books. We have had a…

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Monkeys

I’m sitting in a movie theater and I’ve got a one on my right and a one on my left. God I’m in love. He…

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A Hollow Ball Back and Forth

Amy Ping wanted to kill herself. Lily Pong wanted to get born again. Such were the disparities in life; that they were touring China together…

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The NANO Reading Series at Kaboom Books, Fall 2009

The NANO Readings Series is made possible by Kaboom Books. If you are in the Houston area, please stop by one of their two locations…

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The Day You Were Engaged

You were crying. You were excited. Very. I wished there was some way to TiVo your emotion and play it later at a time when…

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45 Walker Street

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…

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A Family History of Curses

Your mother was an abandoned, half-naked mannequin on display in a peep show window. She said she was just pretending but I knew she was…

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The foxes

hold all weddings on Sundays. It begins with champagne brunches— the upper-class way to drink before noon. They dip their narrow-tipped muzzles near the fizz,…

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