The Sky Too
When Veronica landed in New Orleans and turned on her phone she had a message that the boss’s brother had died and all the meetings she’d traveled for, cancelled. She collected her bags and sat down in a vinyl airport chair, trying to decide what to do. The hotel was ... Read More
The Nonsense Singers of the Red Forest by Rick Moody
Times were tough for Nonsense Singers. It used to be, in the old days, that The Nonsense Singers of the Red Forest sang at every birth, every wedding, every time a house went up, every time a child was declared fully grown.... Rick Moody is the author of nine books. He ... Read More
Excerpt I from His Wife Leaves Him
Stephen Dixon has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate, and has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters prize for fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He graduated from the City ... Read More
Whale Skull
The whale dreams about sitting at a desk and staring at a computer screen. Its skull is the housing for many things. The skull is horned and crooked. Cracked. Filled with Truths. Black metal bands play music about the hunger in the skull. The bands wear the skull to connect ... Read More
The Women Who Watch
Thomas Owen, "Les Guetteuses." La Truie (1972) Translation by Edward Gauvin Here what we call chance and coincidence begin to work. —Arthur Machen, Novel of the Black Powder What a funny figure she cut, the little old lady sitting with her knees pressed tight, the tips of her shoes touching ... Read More