“My best friend’s father died. I went on eBay and tried to buy a new best friend, but all the best friends on eBay were too expensive.” By Mark Baumer
Foreign Bodies
May 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
“Eddie said partly why he left was her goddamn nerves.” By Sara Lippmann
Viewing Medusa
April 5, 2013 by 2 Comments
“Josie became a lot like the jellyfish she studied. She could by turns be prickly, stinging, even deadly, yet still soft and elusive, floating along on currents not of her own making.” By Mary Akers
Three Parables from FUN CAMP
March 15, 2013 by 1 Comment
“Why did the chicken cross the road? Where do bats get their energy? Knock, knock, who’s there, the interrupting cow. How do you know when a blonde has been making chocolate chip cookies?” By Gabe Durham
Funeral
March 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
“Quinn has booked a flight to Connemara, County Galway. But first, this funeral. This director. What is her name?” By Joey DeFrancesco
Left and Leaving
February 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
“Loneliness, poverty, homelessness—these don’t seem to bother him as much as having to announce that he doesn’t have what it takes to keep his marriage going.” By Christopher Ross
An Excerpt from THE REEDUCATION OF CHERRY TRUONG
February 1, 2013 by 3 Comments
“Until they moved to America, Sanh never realized how rarely he spent time alone with his son.” By Aimee Phan
New New Salem
January 18, 2013 by 2 Comments
I drew my saber and he aimed the rifle at me. “Don’t shoot,” I said. “It’d be too depressing to die today.” By Brian Allen Carr
Excerpts from ALL ABOUT
January 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
“Their disagreements were primarily of a semantic nature. They disagreed on the difference between foyer and anteroom, between cellar and basement, between love and affection.” By Gillian Devereux
From THE ALLIGATORS OF ABRAHAM, by Robert Kloss
December 14, 2012 by 1 Comment
This weekend, we have an excerpt from Robert Kloss’s striking new novel, THE ALLIGATORS OF ABRAHAM, a Civil War epic unlike any other.
Frequent Fliers
November 30, 2012 by 1 Comment
“Folks, this is your captain. Kindly take your seats. I illuminated that fasten seat-belt sign. In a few minutes, me and my girl will be shaking us out some rough old turbulence.” By Matthew Pitt
Due Home Any Time Now
November 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“Dale’s bloody hump ass sprawled in the street is my form of negative advertising: Don’t Hit Mommy.” by Martin Barkley
Between Debates
October 27, 2012 by 3 Comments
“Has a president ever shared his dreams with the public before? Can I be the first?” By Sarah Braunstein
Grace: An Excerpt from PANORAMA CITY
October 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“I kept having realizations, and then when I tried to remember them, or recall them, in words, I mean, I couldn’t seem to put them back together.” By Antoine Wilson
Dead Dad’s Club: An Excerpt from BIG RAY
October 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“Toward the end of the visiting hours, a woman who nobody seemed to know walked into the memorial service. She looked at me and said, You must be his son. She said, He left his mark on you.” By Michael Kimball
The Mommydaddy: I’m Having a Baby…By Myself!
September 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In Christie Chapman’s latest story, a pregnant man reflects on the unexpected gift of life.
“Caregiver day is a wonderful idea, becase when you love your children, every day is a day you get to be with and celebrate them.”
This is a comment by CJ on the post “What to the Child of Domestic Violence is Father’s Day?”