By Alessandra Cervera Paulie was obsessed with his belly button. It was the kind of obsession a kid has when he’s determined to find out the ultimate answer by asking, […]

By Amy Block with Thanks to John Haskell 1. PORTRAITURE Late at night in a bulb-lit dorm room, at the hour when conversation drops off in favor of lopsided smiles, […]

By Daniel Pope Avon regards himself as generally uncreative. He loves art and creativity, and as a child certainly was creative, but even back then he could see that he […]

By Shelley Miller Variscite, it was roughly the color of her eyes. That was the excuse he used when asking Tempe to join him in an amateur dig out west […]

By Daniel Nass Joey pressed his nose against the smudged plexiglass wall that surrounded Present-Town. In the street, on the other side of the wall, a group ofchildren were laughing […]

By Piers Gelly “If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my […]

By Nicolas Hartman The sun glistened on the sidewalk, waves of humidity rising in a reverse waterfall. His wife’s constant droning was unpleasant, like a french fry in his ear. […]

Translated by Avery Trufelman We turned on the electric blankets half an hour before we got in bed, as we always do before we have sex. My husband bought very […]

By Danny “Danny” Witkin Her ghost and I are on good terms now. There was discord in the past and, frankly speaking, a lack of trust. Her ghost scared off […]