Josh Lieb: “Review: Aunt Betty’s House”
( ) zero stars The critic endures a thousand-and-one annoyances whilst plying his trade, but none is more common (or...
February 28, 2014
Fiction
2014
V.V. Ganeshananthan: “Shutdown Country”
In the third year of the shutdown—on what, when we were counting, we recognized as the 1,234st day, and although...
February 28, 2014
Amy Butcher: “A Couch is a Couch is Deception”
The problem with the breakup was not the breakup itself but the couch traded between them before it happened. This...
February 28, 2014
Thomas Mundt: “The Ribbon-Cutting”
Dixon Elementary was overachieving in the field of underperformance, according to the latest figures, so certain measures were taken to...
February 28, 2014
J.C. Reyes: “Paul Jean Paul’s ‘Reliable Write-In: The Making of Sitting Down‘”
He opened his door, and so I paid the price to get in. I wasn’t the only one. Critics from...
February 28, 2014
Erik Evenson: “Koans”
We’re in the dairy aisle of the super market and Mom says that she’s getting so old she can’t get...
February 28, 2014
Colin Dwyer: “A Brief Word about Your Birth”
Of course, back in those days we had no sounds for kisses. You know that shy little wink of sound...
February 28, 2014
2013
Ed Park: Intermission II: April 2009—“ Forgive Me”
Intermission II: April 2009—“ Forgive Me” —Morning, Trix. —Morning, boss. —What’s the good word? —Another letter from Awk. —Awk?...
November 17, 2013
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
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
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
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