Archives
February 2012
Stephen Langlois, "The Look-alike"
January 2012
Myfanwy Collins, "An excerpt from Echolocation"
Lindsey Gates Markel, "Night"
Lori White, "The Contraindications for Respite"
Rijn Collins, "Splinter"
December 2011
Amber Sparks, "They Have Only to Say They’ve Missed Us So"
Grant Bailie, "The Magician's Feet"
James Warner, "Kublai Khan's Five Stages of Grief"
Daniel Davis, "Big Ugly Punch"
November 2011
Rebekah Matthews, "Growling"
Kara Vernor, "Usually on Sunday"
Kim Chinquee, "Excerpts from Historic District"
Matthew Olzmann, "Lightning"
Court Merrigan, "Some Place"
October 2011
A.K. Benninghofen, "Before We Were Almost Lovers"
Ian Sanquist, "Barefoot and Penniless"
Laura Ellen Scott, "An Excerpt from Death Wishing"
Laura Ender, "Forty-five Seconds"
September 2011
Christina Kapp, "Bombs"
Damon Barta, "Veterans"
Casper Kelly, "The Sensitive Person's Joke Book"
Sandi Sonnenfeld, "Junket"
August 2011
Sharon McGill, "Half-Light"
Paul O'Reilly, "Crosses"
Rayne Debski, "Support System"
James Dunham, "In Winter"
July 2011
Cat Ennis Sears, "Stamped"
Chad Halliday, "Rhonda Belle and the Butterfly"
Claire Huxham, "Bad Star"
Woody Skinner, "A Thousand Distant Radios"
June 2011
John Haggerty, "A Hole In The Head And The Beekeeper Girl"
Laura Adamczyk, "They Will Leave From"
Michael Sheehan, "To Whom It May Concern"
Sarah Salway, "Per·cus·sion"
Ethan Chatagnier, "419"
May 2011
Brian Mihok, "Pill"
Faith Gardner, "Mada's Debut"
Ross McMeekin, "T-Minus"
Spencer Wise, "Freida"
April 2011
Eric Beeny, "Tattoo"
Chad Simpson, "Adaptations"
Justin D. Anderson, "Colloid"
Shelagh Power-Chopra, "Childbride"
March 2011
Stace Budzko, "Are You Ready?"
Janet Freeman, "Good Boyfriend"
Devan Goldstein, "How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog"
Andrea Kneeland, "Crush"
Buzz Mauro, "Game Theory"
February 2011
Hailey Heikkinen, "It's A Family Thing"
Patrick Allen Carberry, "Still And Gilded"
Becky Margolis, "Our Own Flesh And Blood"
Angela Woodward, "A Story"
January 2011
Gary Moshimer, "The New Year"
Tawnysha Greene, "Eskimo Days"
Vanessa Carlisle, "Excerpt from A Crack in Everything"
Casey Hannan, "Before And After Your Cat Died"
December 2010
Cortney McLellan, "Moss"
Nick Ripatrazone, "Righteous"
Gary Percesepe, "Why I Sing Such Good Songs, Coyote"
Colin Winnette, "Monday—Sunday"
Doug Bond, "Where the ocean ends"
November 2010
Marcelina Vizcarra, "Fugue For Miners Dead"
Timmy Waldron, "Beachfront"
Savannah Schroll Guz, "The Fascinator"
Daniel W. Davis, "They Do This Kind of Thing"
October 2010
Len Kuntz, "One Out Of Two"
Bonnie Zobell, "Serial"
Joy Lanzendorfer, "Swat"
Timothy Raymond, "The Best Man"
September 2010
Jeff Vande Zande, "Marriage With Time Lapse"
Joe Kapitan, "Three Prayers For Rain"
T.L. Crum, "How To Become An Optimist"
Jennifer A. Howard, "Maybe Gravity Is"
Nick Ostdick, "On The Coast"
August 2010
Gary Percesepe, "Scripts"
Jen Gann, "Funny Bones"
Frank Hinton, "All of the people in these pictures are dead now"
Jennifer Marie Donahue, "Resting In Place"
July 2010
Peter Grandbois, "Toilet Trouble"
Greg Gerke, "Would You Please Let Go, Please?"
Dawn West, "The Architecture Of Two Closets In America"
Thomas Cooper, "Big In Japan"
June 2010
Katrina Gray, "Sectioned"
John Minichillo, "The Last Pool Party"
Roland Goity, "From the Ruins"
Susan Miller Silva, "Jolt"
Gary Moshimer, "The Other Guy"
May 2010
Will Buckingham, "How the Revolution Began"
Christy Crutchfield, "The Future of Family Radio"
Matthew Salesses, "two from Our Island of Epidemics"
Naira Kuzmich, "How To Date A White Guy"
April 2010
Heather Fowler, "Three Views You Might Have Taken At Pond's Edge... Or, Quack"
Kevin Spaide, "The Beard"
Meg Pokrass, "In This Light"
Ben Loory, "The End Of It All"
March 2010
Ben Tanzer, "More Than Anything"
Len Kuntz, "Mockingbird"
Tara Laskowski, "The Etiquette of Adultery"
Charles Dodd White, "Carrion"
Robert Swartwood, "An Insurrection"
February 2010
Ravi Mangla, "Obelisk"
Jacqueline Vogtman, "The Gift of Mourning Imagined Losses"
Marianne Villanueva, "Witness"
Robert Kloss, "The Man Who Lived Amongst The Cannibals"
January 2010
Ethel Rohan, "Endangered"
xTx, "While She Is Dying"
Jeff Vande Zande, "The Major Players"
Jen Michalski, "P.E."
December 2009
John Givens, "The Plantain"
AD Jameson, "Waste Extraction"
Doug Paul Case, "Jumping Rooftops"
Gary Moshimer, "Birdman"
Adam Moorad, "Five Years"
November 2009
Amber Sparks, "The Chemistry of Objects"
Yvette Ward-Horner, "Dogs and Refugees"
S. Craig Renfroe, Jr., "Herman and the Elephant"
JA Tyler, "of wood"
October 2009
David Erlewine, "who stormed the beaches"
Shellie Zacharia, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
Anne Valente, "May This Strap Restrain You"
Michelle Reale, "Save Me"
September 2009
Tim Jones-Yelvington, "Slime Me"
Erin Fitzgerald, "Fraud"
Jensen Beach, "Family"
Timothy Raymond, "House of Skeletons"
Angi Becker Stevens, "What It Means To Disappear"
August 2009
Ethel Rohan, "Rocket Into A Pocket"
Jamie Iredell, "The First Colony Inn"
Jeff Vande Zande, "Inside Job"
Shya Scanlon, "Forecast: Chapter 7"
July 2009
Steven J. McDermott, "When a Furnace Is All That Remains"
BJ Hollars, "The Friends"
Peter Grandbois, "Carpentry"
Paul Toth, "And Took Him Down Where He Got the Bends"
Carol Novack, "Four Variations"
June 2009
Michelle Bailat-Jones, "Excerpt from Fog Island Mountains"
Matt Bell, "How I Started Going To Meetings"
Stefanie Freele, "600 Turkey Basters, 200 Tongs"
Beth Alvarado, "The Motherhood Poems"
May 2009
Julie Babcock, "Over Easy"
Roxane Gay, "Things I Know About Fairy Tales"
Peter Markus, "The Moon Is A Star"
April 2009
Matt Briggs, "The Bay"
Kathy Fish, "Cure"
David Erlewine, "Marionettes"
Rachel Yoder, "Arizona's Lonely"
Sara Levine, "Baby Love"
March 2009
Savannah Schroll Guz, "American Soma"
Jimmy Chen, "Life Would Be This Way"
Frank Haberle, "Beauty"
Elizabeth Hall, "Rosalind"
February 2009
James Stegall, "Third Order Effects"
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On The Blog
Congratulations to contributor Chad Simpson, whose collection Tell Everyone I Said Hi has won the University of Iowa 2012 John Simmons Short Fiction Award.
In this week’s Research Notes, Ben Tanzer considers how being simultaneously true to an experience and true to a story can be more complicated than it first seems.
Unknown Arts, the new collection by William Walsh, is now available from Keyhole Press. William wrote about the book recently for our Research Notes series.
Read a roundtable conversation with the authors of the new anthology Shut Up/Look Pretty.
Jess Stoner’s book I Have Blinded Myself Writing This is now available for preorder from Short Flight/Long Drive books.
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