TAPE

By - Aug 11, 2017

I first encountered Future Nuns - a band from Columbus, Ohio - when my friend Alex Mussawir texted me that he was in a ...

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A Previously Unpublished Chapter of “White Nights In Split Town City”

By - Aug 9, 2017

9. During the day, while Father worked, we were watched by a train of women.  It hadn’t been easy for Father to ...

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IN BLOOM

By - Aug 7, 2017

This is the time And this is the record Of the time -Laurie Anderson   I’m in the Sedona Safeway ...

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Tough

By - Aug 4, 2017

Fran doesn’t sleep because the houseguest goes to the bathroom every hour and locks the door. The houseguest is ...

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Three Poems from Mount Carmel & the Blood of Parnassus

By - Aug 2, 2017

  I wanted you to cry with me. Whenever I cry, you cry. Once you cried and I wanted you to stop. I wanted ...

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The Gibson Damnation Resurfaces

By - Jul 31, 2017

I woke early morning on a continent of urine spreading to the edges of my in-laws’ mattress. The piss, an acrid, ...

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The Hazo Story

By - Jul 30, 2017

It goes like this: we couldn’t call her Grandma. It was Hazo. And she was dying. On her deathbed, in the ...

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WHEN YOUR DEAD FRIENDS COME TO VISIT

By - Jul 26, 2017

when your dead friends come to visit you should invite them in, of course the experience will be almost completely ...

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Four Poems

By - Jul 24, 2017

          *** Sam Cooke (b. 1991) lives and works in New

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Three Stories from “The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories”

By - Jul 21, 2017

  The Greatest Mountain The night was very clear. The lights in the steep alleys of the city and in the ...

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Runoff

By - Jul 19, 2017

The water where Tom lived was ruined with iron. Tunnels bored into the hills for their coal a hundred years ago had ...

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Three Poems

By - Jul 17, 2017

QUEEN OF THE LITTLE STINKERS I am Queen of the Little Stinkers. Cross me. I dare you. I cry into the black ...

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Two Sections

By - Jul 14, 2017

INTRO I'm going to do a lot of tough thinking. You're furnishing the liquor. Let's mess up our lives the ...

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Winners

By - Jul 12, 2017

The new Fellows are sitting in a sports bar after orientation, drinking.      They are talking about things ...

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Three Stories

By - Jul 10, 2017

(Some of) His Drinking Habits      He likes to drink at airport bars, he likes to drink on trains, and he likes ...

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excerpt of Romanian Notebook

By - Jul 7, 2017

The priest’s meeting room is in a building, maybe his domicile, across the street from a large orange church ...

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Two Pills

By - Jul 6, 2017

When I had invited the man to my room, I hadn’t expected him to show up with a woman. I had chewed up two pills ...

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Two Poems from The Honeymoon Stage

By - Jul 3, 2017

in the club part one i’m not addicted to pills i just love the smell like autumn leaves i would crush ...

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Two Stories

By - Jun 30, 2017

ADVISE      What fucking Pigeon House this, Forgg said.      Clearly Forgg was insane though now this ...

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Three Poems

By - Jun 28, 2017

  STOP THINKING An infinite pit becomes an inch deep, if you just stop thinking for one ...

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The Dark

By - Jun 26, 2017

A man comes home from work one night to find that his wife is crying.      She's sitting in the living room. ...

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Two Poems

By - Jun 23, 2017

À REBOURS The best intention is a dark thought in a dark room The body has temples And my skull is a ...

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Three Poems

By - Jun 20, 2017

Dream of Relevancy Everyone knows what their life should be and also that it isn’t I watched a video of a ...

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On Submission and the Waves

By - Jun 17, 2017

The youngest, we are always the final birth, a coda.      This is how the fairy tale goes: I was so small at ...

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