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 »