Punchlist, Week of 4/1/13
"There may be others out there like me who need some ways to extract themselves from sitting in front of a television or computer consuming massive amounts of basketball." Jeff Renbarger offers five...
View ArticleCandy Says
"I was 20 years old and I was having a bad trip. For those who’ve never had one, I’m afraid that phrase woefully undersells the experience." Why Matt Gonzales loves "Candy Says." Continue reading →
View ArticlePunchlist, Week of 10/28/13
"I thought about some of the places I've haunted--the places I could feel safe, hidden away from a world that gets to be too much sometimes. And those are the kinds of places I'd like for my eternal...
View ArticleOde to the House Mouse
"I ignore you because I am eating breakfast. / You are sleeping in my house. I do not see / your perfect tail, your round body or my cat" A new poem by Alessandra Simmons. Continue reading →
View ArticleI Can Hear the Clicking at Night
"On the rolling table beside my grandfather's bed is one of those books about the secret symbols on the dollar bill, and I grit my teeth." New fiction by Ann Gamble. Continue reading →
View ArticleWorking Stiff
"Everyone in the company was in their fifties and sixties except Jessica who couldn't have been older than twenty five. She came to work in sundresses and her lips were always wet. She had a strong...
View ArticleWe Are Dead
"You are getting tired of this effervescent always, and I am not yet, though I’ve been questioning it lately. I have achieved what I believe to be the world’s highest Pac-Man score, but nobody is able...
View ArticleWhat the Dead Require
"If you picked your spot right and counted the minutes, you could stand with your arms spread, one hand cupping noon, the other clutching midnight." New fiction from Danielle LaVaque-Manty. Continue...
View ArticleRequesting Your Assistance
We've decided: We all want Rolli to write our headstones. Continue reading →
View ArticleYour First Funeral
"When you’re five years old you don’t know that you should file away memories in the back of your mind for safekeeping." Jay Lesandrini's Meaning of Life essay about what is lost and what to hang onto....
View ArticleEpitaph
"I worked on a construction site, and I / had sun, and wind, and over me the sky." New poetry by James Hutchings. Continue reading →
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