Tag: Issue 1

  • We Should Have Named Him

    We wanted less geometry. Less corn. We wanted the chaotic remnants of ancient flooding. Carved gorges and mountains and rivers that ran through breweries. We wanted burgers with layers of poached eggs and truffles and smoked tomato coulis and cocktails with hibiscus and four different types of ginger. They could keep their Packers and tater…

  • Highway 16

    SETTING: A one-room house: a bed, a table, a fireplace. A red neon sign flashes Grannys from a distance, its reflection appearing as if through a wet window. At rise. The sounds of rain and vultures. In the bed: GRANNY lies snoring. On the table: a book of matches and a mason jar. The sound…

  • Reading Aloud To My Cat

    Reading my writing aloudand I write primarily fiction and personal essayshas always been part of the drill for me. Its the penultimate or even ultimate stage in my obligatory revision/rewriting sequence: from the initial handwritten drafts; through revisions on screen, with their multiple font and type-size permutations; to several printed versions at the end.I once…