Fiction – Page 4 – BIG OTHER

Eight Microfictions, by Joanna Ruocco

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…

Happy birthday, Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading two Martone fictions we published in 2019! They were subsequently published in The…

“A dead hare appears, just like in a fairy tale…” —Joseph Beuys You might know me as Joseph Beuys’s…

Translated by S. C. Delaney and Agnès Potier Slack waves cross the darkness. Like a very thin veil stretched…

Ethereal Meat Tossing crushed garlic into hand-churned butter melting in cast-iron pans, I caramelize buckets of wild mushrooms brought…