Fiction

The Failure Age: an excerpt

Amanda Montei -

He reads her poetry that he hasn’t written. He weeps as he reads it. The words loll around on his tongue like melting ice...

Fording the Street

Colin Fleming -

Ever since I retired on the southern side of sixty years old, I have spent at least a couple hours a day at the...

An Old Songwriter’s Trick

Tobias Carroll -

The week Owen left New York was one of sweltering humidity reaching down to enrapture us, swaddle us, leave us...

Episode of Everybody Loves Raymond

Bilyana Ilievska -

Written in the Key of Cormac McCarthy: I Love You, Season 1, Episode 2. Interviews Tommy Lasorda – Upstate New York – The War ...

Blindfolded Nude Male Swinging Stick at Donkey Piñata

Shari Kasman -

Kurt von Hagersfeld (b. 1963) was born and raised in a small suburb of Boston where he developed such a strong love for celebrations...

Dead Air

William Kelley Woolfitt -

It wasn’t supposed to happen that way. My son Zack was a junior counselor, not even sixteen till August. The camp hired him at...

Seven Names for Missing Cats

Martin Seay -

And what if we don’t look? — Erwin Schrödinger Señor El Gato It’s everywhere now: the lampposts, the telephone poles. In every corner lot, stapled to...

The Girl in the Case

Lisa Teasley -

Rob Ruskin put an ad for the job on Craigslist: Wanted attractive, intelligent girlfriend, who will love, cherish and respect me, tolerate my family,...

I’m Sorry and Thank You

Andrew Hood -

He came out onto his porch and there was some hippy mother changing her baby on his lawn. On a Hudson's Bay blanket, the...

Incredible

Megan Stielstra -

From Everyone Remain Calm now available from Joyland and ECW Press. How it ended was, I got drunk. Like falling off the bar stool. Like...