Fiction – BIG OTHER

Past Hertz, by Hillary Leftwich

I wake up every night unable to open my mouth. I’m grinding my teeth in my sleep. My dentist…

On the other side of the universe is a woman named Emily whose life I could’ve lived. She loves black…

Virginia had mostly stopped coming to gigs, unless it was some sort of banquet where the band would get…

(with appreciation for Italo Calvino) The City of Serena In the beautiful city of Serena, every old woman wears…

Happy birthday, Nick Francis Potter! Here’s “Regarding,” originally published in Big Other on March 13, 2019.

Caveat lector: the following pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.—all published this year in Big Other—are feral, that is,…

We are pleased to nominate the following fictions for inclusion in Pelekinesis‘s Best Microfiction 2020 anthology: Kim Chinquee’s “Foxy”…

We are pleased to nominate the following fictions and poems published in 2019 for the Pushcart Prize: Fiction:…

By Peter Markus This boy is but a boy. The boy that he is, he sees what a boy…