from True Confessions (and brief dreams) in a Time of Pandemic

By Boyer Rickel | August 9, 2020

Missionaries (1962) The doorbell would ring, and my mother and I would slink into the living room trying to muffle our giggles until, peeking out the kitchen window, we’d see the backs of their white short-sleeved shirts as they walked toward the street and their next stop. We’d been on their list my whole life, […]

The Family Teeth

By Regan Good | September 2, 2020

After our mother died, The Father began to go through his reporting papers and the heaps and hills of family documents kept in a large wooden chest from Mexico, locked with a giant iron lock and key. The chest, part of the spoils from their years abroad, smelled of candle wax and toasted wood. He […]

A Natural History of Cruising

By Christopher Schmidt | August 13, 2020

* * An attractive figure rounds the corner. Is he? Yes, very. Your gaze locks in his. The moment dilates. Take in the hooded eyes, the aquiline nose. Zero the body. You feel a flush of arousal, a stirring below. Your pulse grows palpable. The mouth wets but you can’t swallow. * * […]

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The Searchers

By Amelia Van Donsel | August 29, 2020

Back when Suez was a hot topic, it wasthe Gladiator of Tennessee vs. the Alabama Murderer,and my fella took a few blows but knocked out the champ,defeated in Montgomery, in record time!The amateurs all came looking.If you want victory, I said, you must train like him, eat like him, and...

Four Stories

By Alexander Kluge | July 31, 2020

The following stories were originally published in Fence #20, Winter 2008-2009. You can purchase this issue as an ebook here. —translated by Martin Brady & Helen Hughes The Blind Director Often he would sit there in the country’s penetrating sunlight under the merciful protection, so to speak, of his...

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