The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
MAR 2007
Fiction
5 Stories by Diane Williams
by Diane WilliamsFiction
The woman’s cushions are done up with bunger and with Chottie’s plaid and she has never been so flashily stretched out in front of herself and Mr. and Mrs. Godwin are at the door.
The Accidental Oracle
by Kurt StrahmFiction
My dear young wife Fatima and I had our hearts broken when our little dog Fester (like Lester, but with an F) died. We break down crying every time we see his hairs stuck to the sofa or look in his bedroom, where he “lies in state” in a beer cooler full of ice with his stumpy little legs shot up in the air.
Floats Horse-floats or Horse-flows
by Leslie ScalapinoFiction
“Floats Horse-floats or Horse-flows” is based on the notion of “alexia,” word-blindness, but not arising as a nervous disorder, unknown words create a future.
From RERUNS 2/Jack in the Box
by Jonathan BaumbachFiction
It was not the same. It was all the same. I was in Italy sitting at my desk in a luxuriant Villa writing the story of my invented life. I was in a bed in Brooklyn dreaming I was in Italy at the Villa Mondare, which was a made-up place in any event, writing the first sentence of a fictional memoir.
What Holds Ink To Paper*
by Johannah RodgersFiction
From sentences (Red Dust, 2007), a collection of short stories, essays, and drawings.
