Excerpt from Exit to Americana

By Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal | February 1, 2019

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The point of the leak is to imagine the flood: Hilary Plum in conversation with Caren Beilin

By Hilary Plum, Caren Beilin

Hilary and I have spoken before. With each new book that appears, I diligently come forward as her friend and colleague, as a fellow writer in the fun as fuck trenches of indie publishing, which feels like ascendant exile, sometimes like a lot of rubble, but to me where anything good could happen. It’s often enough a rubble full of velvet pebbles. And unlike corporate publishing, it feels reliant on friendship. How beautiful is that? So when Hilary publishes, I try to especially become her friend, but I also have to recognize, with each new book I become—in a different […]

Editor’s Note: Application to Social Work School*

By rebecca wolff

* Only after pressing “submit” did the author understand that she had misunderstood the online application’s instructions and produced eight single-spaced pages rather than the requested double-spaced pages.

NUDN

By Christine Kanownik

I haven’t read enough to know to know if we actually are those people in fur coats explaining why we have our breakfast at strip-clubs or just a brilliant illusion a composite of features: great tits a hard cock ten grand a month an unobtrusive driver a black day I need to remind myself I wanted this I wanted to be cruel to engage in these sorts of cruelties to pursue unmitigated violence I wanted you to feel unsafe or at the very least unusual and it worked giving me a rich feeling of satisfaction in my daily life in […]

I’ll Let You Go

By Nicole Miller | February 16, 2019

She’d woken with a premonition in the middle of the night. This was about a man she’d once loved. Sometimes […]

NC-17

By Simon Han | May 19, 2018

selected for the 2018 SLS fiction award Say a man and woman, naked, sit on the floor across from […]

Crewel

By Thalia Field | October 10, 2017

“Responsibly” I embroider some “nerves” (this nervous orderly, from the basement upstairs at midnight:) not now, nor have I ever been a responsible worker since “hungrier” is an attribute (he has to clean her light-producing organs) of appetite exhaling warm blue light as she embroiders

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