Fiction – BIG OTHER

What Goes on Near the Water, by Aimee Parkison

My mother and I walk through a grove of Canadian Hemlock after the rain. I’m three and collecting…

For three straight days it rained and did not stop. The first two days, the birds in the rain…

I’m sorry I joked about hanging your grandmother is what the young woman next to me said to the…

Here to Forget He meets her in the hostel’s hallway. This hostel is not similar to where he first…

Employed by the U.S. Customs Service in New York City, under the by-then forgotten novelist Herman Melville, Shelby Ross is…

Otherwise (Eulogy for Diane) Wallace’s Line is “a hypothetical line dividing animals derived from Asian species on the west from…

The Extinction Museum: Exhibit #357 (twenty-three wax cylinders of Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade” c.1890) Poetry should…

Letter I remember a time when everything tasted good. Cold waves did not feel cold, and I couldn’t tell…

Happy birthday, William S. Burroughs! Here are some quotes from this writer’s provocative writing: “Open your mind and let the…

Foxy “I guess we’re not having any babies,” I say to my boyfriend. He’s driving my Mercedes. His left…