Welcome to PER
By Shane Jones - Jul 9, 2019
IMAGINE
A WORK LIFE
EXPERIENCED
AS YOUR IDEAL LIFE
A Hole Burned Through the Middle of Everything
By Nicole Treska - Jul 3, 2019
The trick, she said, was not to let on that you were playing with people’s perception. She could spot a mark the second they stepped in, see the want all over their faces.
Read More >Speech for Tommy’s Wedding, November 11, 2018
By Adam Humphreys - Jul 1, 2019
Through these arguments I came to a hard realization. Tommy, so far as I could tell, would not become more like me, or adopt my humanist concerns. Tommy didn’t think like me.
Read More >Poems
By Marshall Mallicoat - Jun 17, 2019
I’m glad to be so far from industrious men
though still within the ken of their industry
The Desolate Priest Boys
By Chiara Barzini - Jun 12, 2019
Summer camp is divided into two categories: the naked, sexy people, and the desolate priest boys. The naked, sexy people are thin and they have wide shoulders. Their asses are uncovered, round and attractive to all.
Read More >Three Stories
By Francesca Coppola - Jun 10, 2019
He had black eyes and black pants and a black shirt. He tied her hands to the window and walked over the rope like a funambulist. “Without haste,” she said, lifting her belly.
Read More >Four Poems
By Rebekah Morgan - May 27, 2019
Four Poems from Rebekah Morgan’s new poetry collection, Hotel Alexander (House of Vlad, 2019)
Read More >Japan’s Government Began Promoting Forest-Bathing in 1982
By Tao Lin - May 13, 2019
Collapse another year into novel.
You have become so mature and knowledgeable
Gabbling disjunctively about nutrition and diabetes
Mind muddled by emotional frustration.
Medicine
By Sophie Ruth - May 10, 2019
Fold your body over it for several hours
You will feel closer to it, closer to your Self,
Four
By Sophie Ruth - May 9, 2019
you dance. i don’t see it. “isn’t it so sad he died?” i asked my coworker, but i was accidentally smiling.
Read More >Hairs
By Jimmy Chen - Apr 29, 2019
She preferred the difficult nubs half-buried under the first layer of skin cells. To prematurely coax out a fated ingrown hair. That was special to her.
Read More >The Couple
By Michael Earl Craig - Apr 17, 2019
She threw her Thomas Bernhard books at him,
it took eight or nine minutes.
Excerpt from the long poem, NIKE
By Caspar Eric - Apr 14, 2019
even the slightest movement
like heating something
in the shared microwave
Four Poems
By Elis Monteverde Burrau - Apr 13, 2019
you were probably talking about how easy
it would have been to kill
some tiny enemy when
you were younger and smoking
Two Poems
By Ole-Petter Arneberg - Apr 12, 2019
the most beautiful cumshot
I ever saw
was under water
Three Poems
By Ingvild Lothe - Apr 10, 2019
When I said I was an animal in bed
I meant a sloth
Chai
By Hanna Rajs Lara - Apr 9, 2019
it doesnt matter how long your arms are
when theyre painting swastikas now at vasa real n on the mosque
Mock Hare
By Johanna Frid - Apr 8, 2019
At the Netto supermarket in Dalum I came across a frozen one-person meal titled Brændende kærlighed. Burning love.
Read More >Another Way of Discouraging Weasels
By Anne K. Yoder - Apr 3, 2019
I couldn’t blame him for not wanting to disturb them. Although so far I hadn’t caught more than a glimpse. Only little eyes flashing from dark corners and tufts of fur resting on my sheets and trails of weasel teeth scattered along the floor.
Read More >Do You Know The Muntin Man?
By Derick Dupre - Mar 21, 2019
I was a man expanded by the vocabulary of window parts. Muntins in particular, though I was entranced by sash and jamb.
Read More >Tiger Stories
By Ryūnosuke Akutagawa - Mar 19, 2019
He left a trail of blood behind him as he limped into town. Every step he took the horn gave a toot, and in the middle of town square, in front of everyone to see, the tiger collapsed and died.
Read More >Tyrant Hotel, Mother Pig (Opposing Disneyland)
By Tyrant Hotel - Mar 12, 2019
Season Two, Episode One — Iain Sinclair, Lily Hackett, Brad Phillips, Frederic Tuten, Ashton Politanoff, Isabel Waidner, David Keenan, Vi Khi Nao, and SJ Fowler.
Read More >Design for a Carpet
By Kathryn Scanlan - Mar 5, 2019
We must not disagree about the carpet. One of us must not suddenly desire a new carpet while the other still enjoys the original. The carpet must not create discordance of any kind in the house.
Read More >IGGY POP – BARE & REAL
By Tyrant Books / Fat Possum Records - Mar 5, 2019
IGGY POP – BARE & REAL is a collection of photographs that Paul McAlpine took of Iggy Pop on various tours spanning the musician’s career.
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