Cecil Castellucci: “Cassandra Speaks”
I’d like to tell you something I think your husband is ugly I don’t say it in a mean way...
November 17, 2013
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Nate Brown: “The Brothers Broad Touring Band”
The problem was that when Ray changed his same to Swarna and moved up to Iowa to live amongst his...
November 17, 2013
David L. Ulin: “August”
For Sophie 8-19 every time I drive down to the Cape from Boston, Route 3 reminds me of Babe Ruth,...
November 17, 2013
John Harper: “SIESTA”
There’s no rush to do anything; I have done so much— already the sun hits the waterfall mouth...
November 17, 2013
Aaron Burch: “Life Itself”
Life Itself Sometimes my life seems like a series of years where, every year, I feel a year too old...
November 17, 2013
Peter C. Baker: “Dynamic Tower”
Before Abu Dhabi I never had money for travel. And so whenever I left the city for vacation––whenever my plane...
November 17, 2013
Michele Seabrook: “after the movie”
there is nothing negative to say about falling back in love on a ferris wheel, above the neon shirt clad...
November 17, 2013
Mark Pritchard: “Woebegone”
His voice is just a whisper, but amplified by the microphone, it rolls out over the audience, low and mellifluous....
November 17, 2013
Benjamin Warner: “The Two Harmonicists”
There were two harmonicists. I signed up for lessons with Dewayne Keyes. The other didn’t give lessons. He played along...
November 17, 2013
Zack Kushner: “The Limits of Attraction”
Toru had always been exceptionally dense. He was born like a slick cannonball. Coming out, he bruised the obstetrician’s fingers...
November 17, 2013
Colin Summers: “Plunge”
When the lake closes over my head, the rest of the world recedes. Not just the world itself, but the...
November 17, 2013
Adam Kenworthy: “The Prowlers”
Back then, a town was still small enough to be called a town. This was back before the big river...
November 17, 2013
Chris Daley: “Beneath the Sea”
Once there was a girl squid in love with her best friend, who happened to live in an adjoining cave,...
November 17, 2013
Andrew Foster: “The Game”
THE GAME Sometimes I had this really strong feeling when I was a kid that it was all a...
November 17, 2013
Ben Streeter: “Dream”
The mom really hates me. The baby steps in my huge oatmeal or protein drink but the dad cleans it...
November 17, 2013