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In Which We Recall Her From The Beginning
The Long Con by NICHOLAS FREILICH You saw me first. I impersonated your contracts professor on the first day of law school, recruiting actors for a production of Pippen. I wore a tweed jacket and...
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In Which We Regard Ourselves As Equals
The Opal Ring by HELEN SCHUMACHER A spiritualist and mystic who believed in reincarnation, June Mathis always wore an opal ring when she wrote, believing it brought her ideas. Her films were...
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In Which They Were A Lovely Couple
ghada amer, "Trini", 2005 Ready For Me by VICTORIA HETHERINGTON We’re lying and talking in bed, and the late afternoon sun stretches long into the room. But you know, childhood is extending. Thirty is...
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In Which We Witness The Return Of Pomp In Austerity
The Longest Bunting in the Land by RACHEL SYKES The windows in the houses opposite were opening onto the street. Sound bubbled out of them, up and over the windowsills, spilling down the road. Church...
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In Which We Hover Outside The Story
Rules of the Trade by SARAH WAMBOLD Grant Wood famously had his studio in the Turner Mortuary carriage house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He fashioned a door to the studio out of an old coffin lid. He...
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In Which Faith Is Ours To Keep Lit
To Swim Across The World by ARIANA ROBERTS1It’s Jeanne d’Arc day. Outside there is singing and marching; people flank the Rue di Rivoli bearing crosses, flowers, and a banner that says, “France is...
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In Which We Look Back Or Look Out
Lumpy & Fuzzy by SARAH LABRIE Your Sister's Sister dir. Lynn Shelton 90 minutes Lynn Shelton makes slow, imperfect dramatic comedies about people melting into their late thirties. She shoots in...
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In Which The Figure Is Strange On A Number Of Levels
The Taxonomy of the Nerd by BENJAMIN HALE I have been using this to entertain people at parties for years, and I’ve finally decided to write it down. I have to credit my good friend Sam Cooper as the...
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In Which We Regard Our Enemies As Lapsed Friends
Kanaka by ROBERT RUTHERFORD The pale lime travel bottle she gave him rested on the round oak table beside the unmade bed, half-empty. His black garment bag lay unfolded on the corner of the comforter...
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In Which The Outfit Requires Control
Six Months of Sequins by BRITTANY JULIOUS I Winter never started. There was snow and ice on occasion, but what I remember most is the dull cold of late fall. We can see the effects of this now. A...
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In Which They Stand At The Vanishing Point
You can find the first part of this series here. Smile If It Hurts by ALICIA PUGLIONESI The actor Steve Martin is not a dentist in that he doesn't have a degree in dentistry. He's done other things,...
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In Which We Figure This Thing Out And Turn It Back Around
Re: The Lists by KENZIE BRYANT These are things that happened: He went away and had an experience. Let’s call it a big experience. So when he came home, he packed and left again. This is how he...
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In Which We Take A Shine To The Surviving Horse
photo by Ursula Coyote No Comment, Cowboy by ALICE BOLIN In the first episode of A&E’s new series Longmire, the show’s cowboy detective Walt Longmire asks his sidekick, Victoria “Vic” Moretti, “You...
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In Which We Are Very Easily Swayed
On A String by ROBIN TUNG In 1997, Bill Clinton was inaugurated for a second term. Dolly the sheep was cloned. Titanic unleashed mass hysteria. Timothy McVeigh was convicted for bombing Oklahoma City...
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In Which Did You Really Think We'd Shut An Open Door
Gesture by T.Y. LEGRAS None other. Before he exited the train, this is what he heard - "The last time...we almost ran out of benadryl." "Your mother..." "Calisthenic. Procedural. Ragged. Very ragged."...
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In Which We Wonder Where Her Toy Is
The Wishing Well by DICK CHENEY I have a hard time focusing for the length of time it takes to watch a television show. It's not like I reach for my phone or iPad right away. I usually don't. It's...
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In Which She Has Begun To Leave New York
This is the first in a two part series. You can read the second part tomorrow. Dances With Something by LUCY MORRIS For a long time I had a theory that if the three central components of your daily...
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In Which We Unveil A Mercury-Based Map
This is the conclusion of a two-part series. You can find the first part here. Dances With Something by LUCY MORRIS New York was the first place I moved in with someone, and also the first place where...
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In Which We Explain Alice Sheldon's Dazzling Sanity
nine year old alice flanked by a dead elephant Alice in Jungleland by ALEX CARNEVALE I may be an actress, I may be a writer, I may be — most probably — some man's grief. - Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree...
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In Which We Take The Advice To Heart
Velkaby ANTONIA RINGLEVelka drew back her napkin and dabbed her face with it. He was still talking."It's fortuitous to find you in such a state."She told him to be careful."I only meant this: it would...
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