Tag Archives: Microfiction

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week and no one lives where they should      they roam the roadssleepless paperless      sleeping in bus stationsfleeing in the middle of the night      writing without the peace to write thinking without the time to think      eating … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: … Death and those who use or serve it—this I did not feel or sense (because I refused to) but I knew it was in the air as sure as I sensed the movement of the breeze … Continue reading →

thee raging undergrowth the fear bitterness & hatredthe witch fellow faltersthe work the starkest darkest &the most sharply subversive pair of shoesthe wartime years self maneuvered & censoredthe jingoistic pension conditionalthe use of memory & his own wordsthe struggling fellow … Continue reading →

The 10¥ Marketplace (Impediments Galore: A Courtroom Drama) A savant mushroom with a seedy past in Africa discovers that its worst fears have come true. An artisanal clutch of gourmands are out to ambush — deracinate, tear and shred. There … Continue reading →

Sometimes Unfinished Music (redux) Sometimes I am asked to clarify my positionandI say I’m equidistant to roil and root. Sometimes I am asked to qualify what I meanandI say this hand is love and this hand is hate. Sometimes I … Continue reading →

One Direction Home Out of the netherworld, through an oppressively humid haze, I materialize at a shore front — the city behind me a stony sentinel, silent and shimmering, in the vapor. I turn from the city and there, where … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: I was on my bike, trying to grow back into somethingI had grown out of, like a hermit crab rewound. — Hedgie Choi / “In My Natural Habitat”

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week I was having a moment,so I went homeand covered myself in princess stickers. — Matt Broaddus / “Emotional Rescue” “The message we keep hearing is that the nuclear risk is over, that that’s an … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: The Administration—Stephen Miller and others—are already calling on other red states to do the same. The federal government would give these states money, in part, to open these facilities. And the money is largely coming from FEMA’s … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: The health of the troops depends so much upon keeping themselves clean that too much pains cannot be taken for that purpose… As every kind of Sloveness or Inattention will be severely punished — The Officer of … Continue reading →