Escalation (an excerpt)
By Monika Woods - Feb 21, 2017
Victor had never been sure what he needed, but he’d always been propelled by bursts of pleasure and want, the ...
Read More >I Understand
By Chelsea Hodson - Feb 17, 2017
Last week, thousands of writers traveled to a convention center in Washington, D.C., to "do a ...
Read More >Thanksgiving in Palm Beach
By Michelle Lyn King - Feb 15, 2017
In Florida, I make sure to always call my dad “dad.” Dad, do you know what you want to order? What ...
Read More >Album Reviews of 1994
By Julia Dixon Evans - Feb 13, 2017
DOOKIE Remember when someone brought a boom box to the first cross-country race of the year and we heard Dookie for ...
Read More >THE NIGGER KNOCKERS
By Rion Amilcar Scott - Feb 10, 2017
The knock, knock joke, much like the negro spiritual, began as a means of clandestine communication, a way for slaves ...
Read More >Something Great About The Sun
By Meredith Alling - Feb 8, 2017
My father really just seemed angry that I was this and that, all things specific to my essential nature, to my ...
Read More >Must Be Peopled
By David Burr Gerrard - Feb 6, 2017
Kate and I often joked about ranking friends’ baby pictures from cutest to ugliest. The only reason to bring forth ...
Read More >FEBRUARY TYRANT: BRYAN WOODS
By BRYAN WOODS - Feb 6, 2017
Hi everyone, I'm Bryan, and I'll be your Tyrant of the month for this, the shortest month of the year. I'm writing ...
Read More >Why This Book Is Important and Things I Like and Don’t Like About It, Plus Biographical Information About Me A Book Review of OK by KOOL AD
By Helen Schreiner - Feb 2, 2017
Why This Book Is Important and Things I Like and Don’t Like About It, Plus Biographical Information About Me A ...
Read More >excerpt of The Sarah Book
By Scott McClanahan - Feb 1, 2017
I told her I’d do better and I told her I’d stop drinking and I told her I’d take better care of myself and I’d ...
Read More >excerpt of “literally show me a healthy person”
By Darcie Wilder - Feb 1, 2017
in third grade when everyone cool had glasses like arthur from arthur i faked having bad eyesight at the eye doctor's ...
Read More >Interview with Kimmy Walters
By Sam Pink - Feb 1, 2017
Friends, pleasant discoveries are everywhere. What was thought to be an empty pocket, contains loose change. ...
Read More >excerpt from “WELFARE”
By Steve Anwyll - Jan 3, 2017
(below is an excerpt from the white hot novel titled WELFARE by Steve Anwyll coming from Tyrant Books in the fall of ...
Read More >Poem For A New Year
By Kelly Schirmann - Jan 1, 2017
People like to talk about the year ending like it’s old fruit you can just toss out Something that’ll ...
Read More >Road Rage
By Scott McClanahan - Dec 31, 2016
I was doing a lot better with my road rage. One day Chris and I were coming back from the store and I hadn’t even called anyone “Fucker” or “Look at that stupid motherfucker” or “Fucking move it buddy.” I wasn’t flipping anybody off or shaking my fist or talking about how the whole earth needed a new extinction. “Who cares about saving the earth. I thought the purpose of life was to destroy it.”
Read More >excerpt of “Bandit”
By Molly Brodak - Dec 30, 2016
14 My first memory happened on a stairwell, and stairwells have had special resonance as meaningful sites for me ...
Read More >Service Industry
By Mallory Whitten - Dec 27, 2016
two men walk into the diner at 8:20 AM. i am the only server. i greet them and tell them they can sit wherever they ...
Read More >Interview with Harrison Ford, 2019
By Brad Phillips - Dec 26, 2016
- Good afternoon Mr. Ford. It really was quite a bit of working tracking you down. - Nice to meet you - I, I can't ...
Read More >Four Poems
By Kimmy Walters - Dec 24, 2016
BUILD A LITTLE SHRINE FOR THE DEAD I don’t use crystals because they’re magical but because they’re cold and ...
Read More >Two Poems
By Michael W. Clune - Dec 23, 2016
Camera A camera is a little cave Where a spider lives. The photographer Puts his eye to the cave’s mouth and ...
Read More >Four Poems
By Elizabeth Ellen - Dec 21, 2016
Tanja Tanja says I am too controlled Which is ironic because I was just saying I felt a real lack of control In ...
Read More >Jordan Castro
By Zachary German - Dec 20, 2016
One stop car audio. An advertising jingle: a woman singing the words, One stop car audio. Digital editing extends the final syllable of the word audio, shifts the pitch to make it be six or eight syllables. O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o. Eight syllables.
Read More >Recurring Intrusive Thoughts
By Juliet Escoria - Dec 18, 2016
Sometimes when I think about myself, I see my body on the beach. Except there is no water. So I guess it’s actually a ...
Read More >Lucky You
By David Fishkind - Dec 16, 2016
They gave her painkillers and said she couldn’t drink, but Lena was drinking when she texted she was drinking, just a little.
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