New Stories
- Thought Experiments: An Abecedary
- A story in 26 (or so) parts A is for Alibi B is for Brand C is for Clock D is for Dream E is for Einstein's Elevator F is for Fractal G is for God H is for Hilbert's Hotel I is for Immortality J is for Justice K is for Kline Bottle L is [...]
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Abecedary Segments:
Featured Poems
- Old English
- I buried the sheepdog for you, trying
to save you from that grief, dug through muscled
roots, past rain-wet earth to harder, drier
soil that did not cling, but scoured the shovel...
- I buried the sheepdog for you, trying
- How Like Dime Novels
- How like dime novels, the prizefighter is
when beaten to a pulp; he tried to say
that no one in the world could put him down.
Sisyphus had his philosopher's stone–
with his chiseled features and broken hands,
the champ turned to Gold and said, “Violence
has come to a head.” Punch-drunk, on the ropes...
- How like dime novels, the prizefighter is
Featured Blog Posts
- The Wicker Man / dir : Neil LaBute
- The Wicker Man (and here I mean the 1973 original) is a fascinating film - not a great one perhaps, but an intriguing oddity in the canon of British cinema. From a modern point of view it’s hopelessly campy in places, but genuinely chilling in others, more so than most horror films before or [...]
- Gone Missing
- Boy, I’ve really been MIA from the magazine this summer but I have literally been living in a cave - just spent three days and three nights in one in Arkansas over Labor Day weekend. I’m still reading Son and Foe, however. Still think it’s great! I’ve been moving and/or traveling for the last few months [...]
- Music for happy times
- My best gal is coming down to see me today (yippee!) after a week of business travel. In celebration, I bring you “No Children” by The Mountain Goats, a truly unique love song. As before, I’ve quoted the lyrics from their website below. Now go buy everything he’s put out, okay? [...]
- A Scanner Darkly / dir : Richard Linklater
- There really aren’t a lot of proper science-fiction films around - and by that I mean those that revolve around a science-based prediction of the future, rather than space fantasies of the Star Wars persuasion, or stories that crowbar one fantastical element into our current reality, like Independence Day. Even rarer are movies that [...]
- Best American Short Stories of the Eighties: Exchange Value by Charles Johnson
- “Exchange Value” by Charles Johnson is probably the most disappointing story in the anthology so far. The premise is interesting and even draws on genre horror fiction in some respects: two young, poor black men–”Cooter,” the narrator, and Loftis, his brother–break into an old woman’s (Miss Bailey) apartment after her mail starts piling up, [...]
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