Fiction – Page 3 – BIG OTHER

Colossal, by Noy Holland

He liked bird dogs, with their handsome pedigrees and soft mouths. Fine heads, high strung, spots of liver, their…

We wharfies spend ourselves on sandwiches slick with mayo and chips as tough as baleen, a scrap of which…

Salt from his margarita sat on his lips. A grain had wound up on his face, sitting in one…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Roberta Allen! Celebrate by reading “A Way to Go,” which we published in 2019! …

Left alone, an empty jug will replenish, so it has been written; mirrors will cast flashes from one’s past;…

iDeath My father was driven to Drink and Despair in a donkey cart. Other men had died there, and the…

Translated by Karen Gernant Not until dawn did the noise subside and all turned quiet. Tide fell asleep. He…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading these Raffel fictions we published in 2020! They were subsequently…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor David Ohle! Celebrate by reading this Ohle fiction we published in 2023! They found…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which…