by Kaitlyn Greenidge | Aug 10, 2013
It started between Mom and Charro the first night. Although she wouldn’t admit it, Mom had been dreaming of the first night from the moment it was certain our family was really going to be part of the experiment, that we were really going to raise a chimp with our...
by Nona Caspers | Aug 2, 2013
One day in the alley outside my apartment there was a party. Four women and one man were drinking from a brown bag. I watched them from my writing table, through my fingers like a mask. Earlier I had been watching them through my scarf fringe, and before that I...
by Laird Hunt | Jul 25, 2013
The year before I received a black belt in Tae Kwon Do at Indiana University, I spent time studying La Boxe Française in Strasbourg, France. Classes were held in an odoriferous university gymnasium. The instructors did not have mustaches nor wear tights, but it is...
by Richard Robbins | Jul 17, 2013
When she said time, she meant her grandmother’s mink coat, still torn from the formal dinner wars, holding its breath under the clear laundry bag in a dark closet. The woman went missing for three days. She and her husband had been talking from either side of the...
by Alex Cigale | Jul 3, 2013
Alexei Alexeivich Alexeev was a genuine knight in shining armor. For example, one time, seeing from a passing tram how one lady, having tripped over a flower pot and dropped a glass lampshade for a table lamp out of her shopping bag, which immediately shattered,...
by Sean Lovelace | Jun 18, 2013
Sounds unspooling from the stereo. The sky low and gray. A bit of futuristic windmills here, a homemade billboard there (HELL HAS NO THERMOMETER), over there a stretch of satellite dishes and soybeans, and over there deer after deer, facing the green grass of the...
