They’re in the walls. Bugs or rats or. Bats. At night they come most alive and torment with bites or bits or pitter-patter of feet or claws or. Iron....
DR. SWAN
We drove in silence through town, the parakeet perched on the arm of her heart-shaped sunglasses. She was crying, but maybe didn’t want...
Chico Xavier had a special son. His name was Emmanuel. He was no ordinary son born of a woman, but existed as a manifestation of his father’s highest vocation. It...
Jalacy sawed the months out, minus one fingernail, a human spittoon brought full and nocturnally splintered across the marquee of his alleged comrades. Only people with blue eyes are...
Sometimes
when I have my eyes closed
or my back turned
or I pretend I am sleeping
I cannot discern your voice
(Spill-O’s Small Night Out)
No more docks, no more mills. He walks the landmark blocks trying to name the sad old bug so deep up his ass.
On...
Below is an excerpt from the upcoming novel PUNCHIES PIZZA by Justin Andrew Johnson. Audio provided by Patrick Stephenson. Hello, my name is Jim, and I’m 31...
TALKING BOOK's new release in BAD SEX by the incomparable Clancy Martin. "I drink, I hurt myself and the people around me, and then I write." Brett is in Central...
The following is the fourth and final installment of many kickass excerpts from Brian Alan Ellis’s new book A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar POEM...
The following is the third installment of many kickass excerpts from Brian Alan Ellis’s new book A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar POEM FOR CHANNING TATUM When...
Sperm ricochet guaranteed to pale its purse, vile keepsake authorizing likenesses till handkerchiefs everywhere stood tall in their verse, spawned under court order direct from Satan’s lap, knotting the...
It happened at the grocery store first. The woman checking my things looked at me with a corner smile. “Things been goin’ good lately?” Lately? That word was an...
The following is the second installment of many kickass excerpts from Brian Alan Ellis's new book A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar ACADEMIC...
I’ve been meeting a lot of people who wonder, “How is a short story written, what is involved?” I figured I’d break it down into simple steps. They don’t...
The first sound recording was not of music. Thomas Edison, being a man of science and not a literary man, and most likely caught out by the fact that...
I'll get right down to it here and say that what I hate most about people who own skis is that they own skis. Yes. Of course. And you're...
Every once in a while we like to shoot out a few ideas as to where people should send their writing. At the moment the following places are cool...
A Friday off. It’s noon by the time I get out of bed, the worse for wear, one by the time I get in the shower. By two o’clock,...
