Center of Insurance Against Villains
speculative fiction by H.M. Wheat The neighborhood was built in the seventies and didn’t seem to have been upgraded at all since then. All the… Read More »Center of Insurance Against Villains
Feet
by Todd Chapman
I’ll settle for the color of skin. Skin is the color of his skin, which is my skin, and one day while running my skin… Read More »Feet
by Todd Chapman
Run Away
by Jay Boyer
That is not true. Mommy did not call you an asshole. Mommy does not use that kind of language. Not with her little girl, who… Read More »Run Away
by Jay Boyer
The Roaring Ocean Does Not Roar
by James Warner
I was not the only Irishman on the SS Arizona, as we moored outside New York harbor, but I certainly wore the finest ankle-length otter-lined… Read More »The Roaring Ocean Does Not Roar
by James Warner
What We Are Doing
What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this… Read More »What We Are Doing
Borges on Criticism & Compulsory Happiness
“I have tried to disregard as much as possible the history of literature. When my students asked me for a bibilography, I told them, ‘A… Read More »Borges on Criticism & Compulsory Happiness
Borges on enchantment
I have read almost all of Croce, and though I am not always in agreement with him, I am enchanted by him. Enchantment, as Stevenson… Read More »Borges on enchantment
Letter from Latvia
by Zinta Aistars
The first time I visited Latvia, my parents took me to Ventspils to see the city where my father had spent his teen years, just… Read More »Letter from Latvia
by Zinta Aistars
10 Questions: an interview with Kate Braverman
In 2005, Michelle Richmond conducted this interview with Kate Braverman. Topics discussed: Braverman’s long career, experimentation in writing, book autopsies, San Francisco writers, revision, writing about climate, live audiences,… Read More »10 Questions: an interview with Kate Braverman
How Fish Sleep
by Jane Wong
cut glass by Franci Claudon When people came to the funeral, they came by foot. They came with plates of sweet pork and pound cake… Read More »How Fish Sleep
by Jane Wong
Giacomo’s Seasons by Mario Rigoni Stern
translated by Elizabeth Harris Behling editor’s note: Le stagioni di Giacomo (Giacomo’s Seasons) won the 1996 Grinzane Cavour Prize and has been translated into… Read More »Giacomo’s Seasons by Mario Rigoni Stern