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April 21, 2014 Fiction

To Correct Excessive Internal Rotation of the Glenohumeral Joint

Step 1: Myofascial release: The end of your relationship starts as a nagging pain in the crease below your shoulder blade: a pinch, almost itch that you sometimes think you could snap out with one good

April 18, 2014 Fiction

Cubism

Then I catch Dan glancing tenderly at my infant daughter. We are flopped on the floor of a rented shore bungalow on Long Beach Island. It’s the last week of summer, the last time we’ll all be together

April 17, 2014 Columns

FedExtra Fire, Please

I am still sad about the fatal crash last week in California, where a blazing FedEx truck hit a school bus carrying precious cargo toward a promising future. Earlier this week I read something very

April 16, 2014 Interviews

Interview: Steve Hamilton

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is sometimes ignored on maps. And it’s often ignored in the literary world. But things are changing. Some powerhouse authors are emerging with strong links to the area—writers such as Catie Rosemurgy

April 15, 2014 Podcast

Podcast Episode 011: Jason Ockert

The plots of Jason Ockert’s new story collection, Neighbors of Nothing, have been called “hair-raisingly original.” In this episode of the Monkeybicycle Podcast, Jason reads a story from the collection, titled “Jakob Loomis.”

April 14, 2014 Fiction

Fermi

Our brother said there would be three lunchboxes worth of snails in the garden. We called him Slug Boy for that. He was always telling us how many sisters he wanted instead of how many he

April 11, 2014 Fiction

The Exhibition

The asphalt path was cut into the hill so that place-seekers could walk evenly despite the hill’s steep grade. Aurora meandered, her mouth a cold oh over a dripping popsicle, scratching mosquitoes away from

April 10, 2014 Columns

An Open Letter to DRG

As always, writing to you is categorically repugnant. So much so, that I need an anti-nausea pill to avoid puking on my laptop; which reminds me, I really should get a rubber keyboard cover.

April 9, 2014 Interviews

Interview: Rebecca Meacham

Reading Rebecca Meacham’s work is not unlike opening a cabinet of curiosities and falling into each object’s rare and unique past, a time capsule for the strange. However, as the title suggests, these curiosities are strictly