January 1, 2018
Short Fiction Contest Introduction
Did you get a good view of the eclipse last year? In Gambier, hundreds of us gathered on the lawn in front of the library, sharing the special flimsy glasses […]
November 1, 2017
How to Mourn
Everything’s far away. Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy. —The movie Fight Club If you read my fiction, you will find a character named Grandma. In real life, […]
November 1, 2017
Cowboys & Aliens
An excerpt from Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News © 2017 by Kevin Young; published by Graywolf Press. We have our hands full […]
September 1, 2017
Disembodied
An hour before the Mora County Commission meeting, the chair of the commission prepares her notes on the oil and gas regulation she will propose. Her audience will be a […]
July 1, 2017
Xan Fielding: Romantic Adventurer
Lord Byron’s need to escape boredom and quest for adventure; his realization of egoistic fantasies, flamboyant costume and theatrical behavior; his union of thought and action, art and politics; his […]
May 1, 2017
Reclamations of the Marvelous
When my neighbors complained the roots of our cypress were buckling their lot, the landlord cut the tree down. I didn’t know a living thing three stories high could be so […]
March 1, 2017
Field’s Kangaroo
Spare a thought for “The Kangaroo,” a most intriguing poem by Barron Field, judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1817 to 1824, doubtless not the first […]
January 1, 2017
Aunt Dorle’s Master Lovers
In Dorle’s telling, Irish nationalist Charles Steward Parnell had his heart broken three times. First by a “young girl picking plums in an orchard” with a “delicate rose-flushed face with […]
January 1, 2017
Yalta
Tell me this: Do you think that in the years since you died my life has continued as before? Do you think that I still walk through our rooms, that […]
November 1, 2016
Cut Down to Size
It’s an early January morning when we find the little black calf alone, in a puppy-dog curl in the shade of the silky oaks in among the ferns. In the […]
September 1, 2016
Begetting
Spring was done. Wood frogs, peepers, spotted and blue-spotted salamanders—all explosive, early communal breeders—had fanned back out from the wetlands to their three-season forest haunts; tadpoles and salamander larvae had […]
September 1, 2016
On the Book of Sand
In Borges’s story “The Book of Sand,” a man trades the family Bible for an ancient book that is always changing so he can never find the place where he […]