Séance So-and-so with your arms at your side — tiny bits of mercury in your mouth. true crime is never as disturbing as the podcast claims. so, someone doesn’t get out alive; big deal. I have an app on my iPhone that alerts me when there’s gunfire — West 4th and whatever – my stomach […]
from “And Yet”
When Jeff Alessandrelli handed me a copy of And Yet, which was reissued by Future Tense Books in April 2024, he noted the book was a work of speculative fiction. I recently described it to someone as Boy Bluets. When Nik Slackman, a digital editor at Fence, read an excerpt, he said: “I love this. […]
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When We Were Young
Salim, Obaid, Prakash, Usman, and I: five tough boys. We rolled our shirt sleeves up to the shoulders, hurled stones at pigeons, bulbuls, air-conditioner compressors. We were invincible, unpredictable. We saved our greatest mischief for the grocer. It went down this way: we would disperse into the grocery, open the ice cream fridge, then close […]
from the tale in gray [second light after death]
where to let time fly. is the night still weighing on the day. school closed. your teachers jumped on and off stage like monkeys on a hot tin roof. hands banded behind their backs, they were kneeling down before a crowd that circled the school auditorium. a photo of the sick old great […]
The Listening Rooms
BUT ALSO THIS — Correspondences for Etel (excerpts)
Untitled – Etel Adnan, 2014, oil on canvas, 35 x 27 cm. One image is always more than one image — Gerald Murnane Things don’t connect, they correspond — Jack Spicer PART THREE And then came the arrests. Came the tear gas, the percussion grenades, the pepper spray, the wooden bullets, the LRAD declaration of […]
Other places we learned religion
https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/other-places-we-learned-religion.mp3 To listen to Afton read her work as below, click on the play button in the black bar above. To see a pdf preserving the horizontal layout and original lineation of the work, please click HERE. OTHER PLACES WE LEARNED RELIGION The color blue LinkedIn suggests that Criminal Cousin One is a kitchen designer, […]
The Escombros Bug
It was November 1999, 78 degrees, and dust clung to each drop of sweat that seeped from Gloria’s forehead as she forced a shovel into stubborn earth. She felt like Pete’s lackey, digging for the bomb shelter. The site reeked of ammonia–her husband had softened the caliche with buckets of his own piss before taking […]
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