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Le Lapin

Ruth is anxious to meet baby sister. Yet a chance encounter with a strange magician and his rabbit render the future anything but predictable.

by Carolyn Kelly on August 11, 2015August 11, 2015

The Ghost Sex

Reliving what could have been.

by Samuel Bollen on October 12, 2015October 12, 2015

Michael Sard Was Here

A short story.

by Michael Sard on December 4, 2008March 17, 2013

Welcome to WolfWorld

There’s only wolves and people left.

by Samuel Bollen on October 24, 2016

An Interception

That long diagonal, from Point A to Point B, also happened to contain Point Me, somewhere in between.

by Giri Nathan on December 6, 2012March 22, 2013

Over-Love

Until the February of his eleventh year, Joseph Cohen felt an inordinate kind of sympathy for all earthly things he encountered, even—and in some moods, especially—for inanimate objects.

by Giri Nathan on May 2, 2013May 6, 2013

Jackal at the Shrine

Fiction, on raising the dead.

by AC Gray on October 10, 2016

Psych Ward Memoirs

When I catch sight of my stitches in periphery, I think they are hairs growing out of my wrist, like black wiry hairs growing out of a mole or on the jaw lines of women. Then I think of Marie, … Read More

by Margaret Sullivan on February 3, 2010March 17, 2013

First, Nothing

“Let yourself age. Let time press through your skeleton like water, dribbling through your pores, let it sing right through your bones…”

by Lara Katz on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

Stieglitz

He’s old, Stieglitz is, when I’m looking at this photograph in my dining room. It’s one hundred and forty-three years since he was born, but he’s still hunched over his desk in his little, crowded gallery like he was when … Read More

by Zack Newick on December 4, 2008March 17, 2013

Twenty Years On

“I was a swimmer in the night. The moon on my face, I dove off rocks and cliffs. I swim in my dreams and they sound like the breaths of fish past my face.”

by Henry Moses on March 5, 2023

On Wisdom (and) Teeth

“A Sunday slumber turned October tastes like cider mixed with tahini.”

by Iris Samuels, Mariachiara Ficarelli on October 22, 2017October 28, 2017


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