Nicole Callihan One Fish, Two Fish

My favorite story, Simon, was the one where you shot a pear off of your wife’s head. It was dead winter, as I recall, and the two of you had just returned from Mexico...

Mackenzie Epping Auslaender

Teufelsberg was no man’s land: a cyst on the earth built of the rubble left behind from bombs, covered in grass and post-war buildings...

Lech Harris Interior Illusions

Interior illusions, or “sunken pictures,” are private images that the mind conjures up when gazing upon a particular object or pattern...

Jimmy Chen Tomorrow’s Tiring

Each party was documented extensively using digital cameras. Everybody at the party took pictures of the party—either of other people...

J. Albin Larson Hunting Bambi

Ernie Carlson had been hunting Bambi for one hour and forty seven minutes.  Heat and sweat covered him like a fever although the woods he tramped through were...

Brandon Scott Gorrell Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

Alex ran up some stairs and reached the roof of the building and talked to Ceaser. Ceaser pointed at five men in black suits and sunglasses sneaking around on a rooftop...

Frederick Lane The Court & the Cross

There is one fundamental belief that has sustained the Christian Right through long days of campaign speeches...

Meakin Armstrong The Missing Years

Sweetie Bozard sits in her usual pew near the altar rail. She clears her throat while Pastor Hinnant announces the theme for the Fourth of July church float...

Sam Osterhout When You’re 15

When you’re 15, a fake ID is not the only thing you’re gonna need to buy alcohol. You may also need some facial hair...

Tao Lin The Disappointed Ant

The disappointed ant understood the power of making chapbooks and packaging them and mailing them to people...

J. Albin Larson Wedding Day Blues

My neck was itching like a fat man around dinnertime from the starchy collar of the tuxedo I had on for my...

Lech Harris Dozetown

Little-known facts about the 1978 Jonestown cult massacre:

1. The American Special Forces personnel that were airdropped into Jonestown...