Category: Fiction

The Making of Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson has always been a divisive filmmaker. There are those who revere him and those who think all his films are simultaneously overwrought and underdeveloped. But whatever you may think of him, it is hard to deny that he … Read More

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Slapstick

The toy’s full name was Slapstick: An Authentic Comedy Toy for the Whole Family!TM, Slapstick himself being a kind of flesh-colored kidney-bean-shaped almost-humanoid character with googly eyeballs and kind of oozy chunky rubbery skin (which was in fact made of … Read More

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Dreamscape

“When she dreamt of something, she dreamt of ballet.”

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Antibody

“Disconnecting from my warring fingers, I hang in a space that belongs to neither fingers nor eyes.”

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Things Unsaid

“11. you never smiled that widely when you were with me”

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Vines, Pt. 1

“Is it too late to go around asking strangers for tylenol?”

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American Fairy

“Somehow I would atomize the egotism and diva and brutishness that mediated Ty’s interface and reveal genuine realized human soul.”

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The Poster

Sometimes the world has a way of telling you when you have a calling.

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The Day

“Dad, there’s something in the pool.”

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Dregs

“But with Mrs. Ashbury, Gregg was different. He showed her a care that she never seemed to reciprocate, even when she paid him.”

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The Screaming Woman

Let me tell you a story. There was a storm on the day my great-grandmother died.

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Faking Wes Anderson

“The editor of Analecta, the official literary and arts journal of the University of Texas at Austin, was flipping through some old volumes when she came across the writings of former UT student and current filmmaker Wes Anderson. Published in … Read More

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