Fiction
Crown of Thorns
By Douglas GloverWhen Tobin was eight, he fell in love with his babysitter Aganetha, the awkward one with the large, damp eyes, floppy, uncontrollable bosoms and a soot-coloured hair-wing she kept pulled down over her face to hide her acne.
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian EvensonCheck in every month for another installment of, Féder (or the Gilded Husband), this fantastic and unfinished novella that we will be serializing throughout the winter, spring and summer of ’11.
Chapters 1, 2, & 8 from Fatale
By Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-SmithThe hunters were six in number, men mostly fifty or older, but also two younger ones with sarcastic expressions. They all wore check shirts, sheepskin jackets, waterproof khaki trench coats, more or less high boots, and caps. One of the two younger guys was all skin and bone, and one of the fifty-year-olds, a bespectacled pharmacist with white hair in a crew cut, was fairly thin.
Character and Fitness: Chapters 7 and 8
By Jason Flores-WilliamsCharacter and Fitness is a semi-autobiographical novel about an unemployed social justice lawyer and his nurse girlfriend living in a shitty apartment complex behind a strip mall in suburban Philadelphia, the birthplace of our democracy. The novel explores the alienation and estrangement that working class, thinking people feel in America.
Tragic Strip
By T. MotleyFiction Krishna, Episode Three: In which Fiction Krisna tries in vain to explain the nature of the imagined universe to Arjoona, his favorite disciple.
