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Dead Souls

By June 4, 2021
They had sat there with all their worthy feelings about Zariyah Zhadan’s poetry, perversely enjoying the disruption of the recital by a finger circling the rim of a wine glass.

How We Drink Now

By Mickie Meinhardt, Helen Schulman, Michael Adno, Amy Jo Burns, Sarah Madges, Rion Amilcar Scott, A.E. Osworth, and Tracy O'Neill May 29, 2020
Eight writers discuss drinking during lockdown.

High Ground

Fiction by Jackson Tobin April 23, 2020
The shed is dark except for the triangle of dusty sunlight that reaches through the crooked doorway. You and Adam are huddled in the back, breathing hard. Notice the dark: darker than the empty baseball fields in moonless winter; darker than sleep.

Theater of Shadows

Fiction by Steven Millhauser February 27, 2020
Beneath or beyond the performances lay the fascination of the shadow-world itself, with its hiddenness, its refusal of color, its indifference to familiar effects of visual precision and detail.

Destroy All Monsters

Fiction by Jeff Jackson October 8, 2018
She likes how he listens, likes the easy cadence of their conversation. Despite herself, she moves a little closer, intrigued by his faint aroma of spicy cologne and sour sweat. It’s not a bad smell.