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Feb 35 min read
FICTION: COOLER HEADS BY JULIAN TEPPER
Excerpt from Julian Tepper's new novel Cooler Heads (Rare Bird Press 2024)


May 6, 202412 min read
FICTION: PAY ATTENTION, REMEMBER THIS BY MARA AGUILAR EGAN
A BIRD TRAPPED IN THE AIRPORT—something small and desperate and otherwise common, except for the distinction of being frantic and wild


Aug 3, 20239 min read
FICTION: THE RED-HEADED PILGRIM BY KEVIN MALONEY
Chapter 8: Apocalypse Now When the school year ended, I was out of a job, so I moved back to Beaverton. I didn’t know what to do with...


May 31, 202313 min read
FICTION: AMERICA IS COMING / THE BATTLE FOR WARNER BROTHERS BY J.T. PRICE
FICTION: THE BATTLE FOR WARNER BROTHERS BY J.T. PRICE


May 10, 202311 min read
FICTION: THE MOTH FOR THE STAR BY JAMES REICH
CHAPTER 1 Five years later, Charles Varnas would recall the white linen against his shin, the shifting blade of his trousers, one knee...


Apr 26, 20235 min read
FICTION: THE BRIGHTEST FLAME BY VALERIE PALMER
FORMER WEST BERLIN, 1992 The past few weeks, the days had blurred together. Aleksandr would wake at 7:30, leave the apartment in...


Mar 14, 20234 min read
FICTION: LIKE ANYWHERE ELSE BY AYLA ZURAW-FRIEDLAND
CHAPTER 1 You decide to bring bread to Mother. When you open your eyes on the day of the referendum, you are thinking of bananas, of...


Mar 13, 20239 min read
FICTION: PURE COSMOS CLUB BY MATTHEW BINDER
CHAPTER 2 The sky is overcast and the air hot and sticky as I make my daily walk to the warehouse where I rent studio space from my...


Mar 12, 20234 min read
FICTION: THE VACATION BY GARTH MIRO
1. I’d gone mute. We were in line. It was hot. Yellow-y. She was the one who wanted to be here. I would’ve rather been in my chair,...

Mar 12, 20236 min read
FICTION: THE WILDS BY SARA DOTY
PROLOGUE The belly of Florida is a swamp, and I was born there, in the Wilds. My birth season runs through the warm sconce of August,...


Sep 3, 20223 min read
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