Content Types: Stories

Stories

Captain’s Table
Kate Christensen Issue No. 34
For the past decade or so, I have been obsessed with news stories about cruise ships, in particular the idea of minor disasters at sea on a floating pleasure dome: norovirus outbreaks; engine room fires… Read More »
Brother
Nyuol Lueth Tong Issue No. 33
Let’s call him Brother. He walked into one of the cash-only coffee shops on Valencia Street, which was crowded with white folk, mostly writers or aspiring ones, I could tell from the thick, unbreathable air… Read More »
The Festival of Sadness
Jim Krusoe Issue No. 33
It was a chilly afternoon but we had come out anyway, wearing hats and jackets to prepare our float for the Festival of Sadness, when one of us, and I think it was Nickerson, spoke… Read More »
Dazzle Speaks with the Dead
Scott Bradfield Issue No. 32
Dazzle was neither a mystical nor a metaphysical sort of dog. He didn’t believe in karma, redemption, the transcendental ego, or the immanence of Platonic forms. For Dazzle, the world was a meaningless and immutable… Read More »
Spring
Robert Walser Issue No. 31
Once last spring, shortly before lunch and setting off for town, I stood halfway up the mountain where one enjoys a beautiful view of the country. The damp earth was fragrant with spring; I had… Read More »
Remember This
Robert Walser Issue No. 31
Remember how you rejoiced at the sweet, fresh green spring, how enchanted you were by the silver-white, sky-blue lake, how you greeted the mountains, how you found everything beautiful that encountered you and you encountered,… Read More »
Drums of Zaragoza
Joe Dunthorne Issue No. 31
We practiced in the attic of her father’s orthodontic surgery. Stacked neatly against the back wall were hundreds of small white boxes each containing chalky casts of patients’ teeth. Orthodontistry is a good source for… Read More »
The Precious One
Robert Walser Issue No. 31
Yes, this delicate one led a precious existence. I don’t doubt this for a moment because I understand him, and this being the case, my pen hardly dares to describe or, let’s say, sketch the… Read More »
People Are Streinz
Christos Ikonomou Issue No. 30
Seven months without a single dream. Seven whole months. The twenty-first of May was the last time I had a dream. I remember because it was also the last time it rained around here…. Read More »
The Locked Room
Ottessa Moshfegh Issue No. 30
Takashi dressed in long black rags, ripped fishnet stockings, and big black boots with long loose laces that splatted at the floor when he walked. He smelled strongly of old sweat and cigarette smoke, and… Read More »
The Sunstroke
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Issue No. 30
What is a vacation by the sea, if not a return to eternal youth? Every summer, land-locked Muscovites flock to the Black Sea to face rowdy crowds, suspect food, infernal partying and drinking, horrible beach… Read More »
From “All the Houses”
Karen Olsson Issue No. 29
Often when I tell people I grew up in Washington, D.C., they ask me if I grew up in the city proper or in the suburbs. “In the city,” I tell them, though I’ve felt… Read More »