Features

The Great Absence: Looking at the Projects, Afterward

What better way to fill in the lifeless holes in a city than with the slow, organic creeping of squash vines? What better memorial to a failed housing project than lilacs and purple coneflowers? more »

Vintage Fringe

Résumé Against Boredom

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 »

Fiction

The Ghoul That Ate Smiley’s Summer

Consider this. It is the hottest time of day when the sun lights the entire sky so bright that one cannot be certain of its bearings. The girl lies on a rattan chaise lounge in the garden veranda listening... more »

Poetry

Two poems from a sonnet sequence on Hitchcock films

"The Farmer's Wife" and "The Manxman" more »

Features

Amelia Gray & THREATS: Framed and Finished

"I find it easier to write about things when I'm not deeply familiar with them," Gray says. "I leave out a lot more if it's something that's in my daily experience." more »

(de)ClassifiedLiterature

Taking Roots

“From the desert, the dawn of a new age shines upon humanity, the age of the masses.” - Colonel Muammar Qaddafi 1. Depending on where you are in the world the name will begin... more »

Nonfiction

Growing Roots: Fragments of a Dislocated Schoolgirl

My husband assured me that the small trees would be fine, that their roots would adjust. We just needed to be quick about it, and give them a good drink once they were in their new spot. I plunged the spade into the dirt and stood on its edge,... more »

FictionShort Short

Apology for Brother

By the time I touched it, I knew it was a penis and not a cashew. more »

Vintage Fringe

Blackbirds

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

Features

When Stories Develop Lives of Their Own

Now, months later, I wake up in a cold sweat, shocked at what I’ve done. Not at having the abortion — I’m at peace with the choice we made — but at having written about the most private and painful of traumas. more »

Fiction

A.W.: A Story Backwards

A sphere of hope, like A.W.’s pain, unraveled down the back of her throat. “Please don’t kill me,” she said. more »

Vintage Fringe

How to Be a Good Chinese-Jewish Hapa

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 »

(de)Classified

Breach

The girl who is reading outside the window on the small terraced balcony in the hour or so after sunrise, wind a kind of fist pressed or pressing against her chest, turns a page. Fingers slip between the seams of the book, lift as if to examine a... more »

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7 Pieces from the Spontaneous Generation of Exotic Particles Series