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April 7, 2014 Fiction

Punch Line

It really didn’t matter if they were laughing with him or at him. Terry only needed them to laugh. He took a swig from the glass perched on the bar stool in the center o

April 4, 2014 Podcast

Podcast Episode 010: Vanessa Blakeslee

Vanessa Blakeslee’s debut story collection, Train Shots, has been called, “a colorful glimpse of our sordid and vibrant humanity.” In this episode of the Monkeybicycle Podcast, she reads the title piece from the collection, also titled “Train Shots.”

April 3, 2014 Columns

Relax, Jesus Loves You

Last week, my sister and I were at the surgical center waiting for the surgeon to finish our friend’s procedure. Even though he was in for something minor, we were overwhelmingly stressed, as he’d been

April 2, 2014 Reviews

Book Review: Redeployment
by Phil Klay

Our early twenty-first century desire for “reality” now seems inseparable from the inception of the War on Terror. Just after 9/11, Ian McEwan confessed that he nearly lost faith in the novel, saying in

April 1, 2014 Nonfiction

Waiting for Supermoon

Before the sleepless weekend in a borrowed apartment, before the subway where we screamed until it was clear we belonged to each other and ourselves, before we learned all the ways not to cut

March 31, 2014 Fiction / One-sentence Stories

One-Sentence Stories

Good Times Brandon Wells “No, I never read that Brave New World book,” she said, stopping to take her

March 27, 2014 Columns

Daegu Meet Katie, Katie Meet Daegu

I lived abroad for a few years and have logged quite a bit of international travel. While going to school in Durham, England, it only took six months to decipher the Geordie accent. I celebrated

March 25, 2014 Nonfiction

At the Brewster Arms

Patsy Cline woke me at three a.m., singing “Crazy” at high volume. Another woman was wailing even louder. It had to be Louise because she was the only living female in the Brewster Arms.

March 24, 2014 Fiction

Divergent Plate Boundary

Tall Man and his wife lived at the base of the volcano. The volcano’s name was Aiiw. Aiiw had long been sleeping.

Tall Man was a fisherman at one time and after that he had been a chief