Journalist Carolyn Jones talks about what happened after she went public about her abortion in this Vintage piece, and talks to us on the blog about her current work reporting on reproductive rights in Texas. more »

One thing I should explain right away. I still refer to the Great Man as my husband, though he divorced me forty years ago. You probably didn’t know I existed, did you, till you started your research. I doubt anyone’s left alive who remembers me. Except him, of course. Coffee? No, stay here, I’ll bring it out. more »

In this Vintage piece from Issue 22, Ian Singleton reminds us of the "ache of infernal labor" and the "dream of a bar with a highball and an ashtray." more »

This week in Vintage Fringe: "Blackbirds," a longer poem from issue 21, January 2010. more »

Learn from your classmates about an emerging multiracial community group on campus. Endlessly dissect the word hapa; originally meaning “half” or “part” in Hawaiian, it now can also mean “mixed Asian” in California. more »

Jehanne Dubrow will change the way you think about ears, in this vintage set of poems from Issue 13. more »

1. John Mully and I were sitting in the ER, Johnny holding my undershirt to his bleeding eye, me tapping my foot to the rhythm of the heart monitor attached to a bum lying in the hall. We were waiting for… more »

William Donoghue goes inside the mind of a hardened pedophile in this vintage short story from Fringe's first year. more »

"But imagine what it must be like before it all begins ..."—from "Sometimes a Mountain," by S. Asher Sund. Read this and two more of his poems from issue 18. more »

Mark Brinker strands his characters inside a bottle in this vintage fiction piece from issue 17. more »

Matthew Haynes explores what it means to be between races in this vintage piece from the Ethnos issue. more »

We're rolling the dice with Jim Meirose in this Vintage story from Issue 2. more »

In this Vintage piece of criticism, (de)Classified editor Heather Falconer takes us inside the world of formalist experiments, the world of OuLiPo. more »

Sarah Sweeney learns about her father's alien abduction in this Vintage Fringe nonfiction piece from Issue 11, which also appeared in Dzanc Press' Best of the Web 2008 anthology. more »

What's it like to work in a cannery? The Working Issue closes with this vintage short short from Issue 4. Remember: Six cans a minute, six cans a minute, or you are fired. Twenty-five cents an hour. more »

This week, we've brought back Arlene Ang's three poems, "rest : stop," "through blinds," and "that time my upper lip swelled up" from Issue 6. more »

Celebrate the New Year with this kicky vintage (de)Classified piece incorporating Spanglish from Issue 2. more »

"No Translation," "Poem to Save Your Life," "Poem to Write on Your Birthday," "Elegy for an Amputation," "At the Easel with Alzheimer's," and "For a Day of Silence." more »

In this piece from our third issue, Greg Shupak explains why public libraries are bad for the economy. more »

In this piece from our very first issue, writer Tina Dent imagines extreme consequences of the fat tax -- a world where calories are currency, sugar is contraband, and the fat are sent to reeducation camps. more »