Vintage Fringe
Vintage Fringe: Killing McGinty Safely
William Donoghue goes inside the mind of a hardened pedophile in this vintage short story from Fringe's first year. more »
"You Are Here" and two more poems
"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 »
Notes from a Man Trapped in a Giant Bottle
Mark Brinker strands his characters inside a bottle in this vintage fiction piece from issue 17. more »
Vintage Fringe: Some Kind of Nigger
Matthew Haynes explores what it means to be between races in this vintage piece from the Ethnos issue. more »
The Damned Eleven
We're rolling the dice with Jim Meirose in this Vintage story from Issue 2. more »
Ou-Li-What? What American Writers Might Learn from the French
In this Vintage piece of criticism, (de)Classified editor Heather Falconer takes us inside the world of formalist experiments, the world of OuLiPo. more »
Tell Me If You're Lying
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 »
Rumble Groan Dream
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 »
Three poems
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 »
Shattered Beer Bottles
Celebrate the New Year with this kicky vintage (de)Classified piece incorporating Spanglish from Issue 2. more »
Six Poems
"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 »
Privatizing Libraries
In this piece from our third issue, Greg Shupak explains why public libraries are bad for the economy. more »
F.A.T.
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 »