Scott McClanahan Says Don't Fuck Around Near a Table Saw by Lavinia Ludlow
“A teen stripper amputee emerges from the curtains with a pasty on the end of her “nub””
Life After Life After Death by Robert Lashley
“I will not completely conquer this pain in my lifetime, but I will fight”
Casting Tracks: Cliff Barackman and Sasquatch Culture by Joseph Blair
““Keep an eye out,” Cliff advised. “There have been recent sightings around here.””
The Things We Know Nothing About by Margaret Malone
“I was prepared to play it up. Strangers! Having sex! By a pregnant woman’s hedges!”
As If Knowing the Answers Ever Changes Anything, by Matty Byloos
“capable of loving beyond the categories of sexuality and gender”
Exemplary Injustice in Spain by Jeff Diteman
“Do we throw people in jail for three years for insults?”
Summer Storm Coming by Edie Rylander
“that last breath wasn’t breathing in and it wasn’t breathing out either”
On the Violent Potential of Dads, by Derrick Martin-Campbell
“they will do anything to protect us. And what they do is often terrifying.”
Open Letter: I'd Like to Apologize to a Few People, by Kirsten Larson
“But you didn’t have to choke me. That was over the top”
Big Light on Double Bed by John Michael Flynn
“a trapezoid of margarine light shift upon and reshape the bed”
Confession From a Former Card Shark, by Hobie Anthony
“The real trouble started after the show”
On the Death of Wolverine by Derrick Martin-Campbell
“I fucked his windshield up, a great spiderweb crack full of my blood”
How to See the Dead and Yourself by Niama Sandy
“so many unsung songs in his blood that they spilled into the way he walked”
On Michael Jackson and Hemingway, by Robert Lashley
“Michael Jackson spent almost $35 million to cover up his molestation of 24 boys”
Love, Meet Magic Realism by Samantha Eyler
“our poly relationship is going through a dramatic phase”
There Are Too Many Ways to Hurt by Tracy Dimond
“why do we break each other? Is it like cutting hair off dolls?”
Writing From the Black, Twitchy Place by Frank DiPalermo
“I have been lying to you non-stop”
