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From the Archives: This Boy’s Tongue, by Peter Markus

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Peter Markus! Celebrate by reading Markus’s “This Boy’s Tongue,” which we published in 2019 and…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Sarah Blackman! Celebrate by reading this Blackman fiction we published in 2021! Following that, read…

Here in the snow, in the woods, there is black, there is white, and endless shades between, but none…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Martine Bellen! Celebrate by reading this Bellen fiction we published in 2025! Left alone,…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Kim Chinquee! Celebrate by reading the four Chinquee fictions we published in 2025! Then go…

We are pleased to nominate the following fictions published in 2025 for inclusion in Alternating Current Press’s Best Small…

In ten hours, the surgical resident Syd’s day at the hospital will be behind her and she will meet…

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant I actually got together with Ginger when the pandemic…

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant One morning last spring, my father fed the chickens…

Capitol Park: Tuscaloosa It was on a bluff, a bluff. Alabama’s state capitol building for twenty years. There was…