[The abject] is simply a frontier, a repulsive gift that the Other, having become alter ego, drops so that the “I” does not disappear in it but finds, in that […]
Read MoreIN Summer 2024
“Y’all put that gator right back where you found him or I’ll pepper your asses with 177s.” I aimed my Daisy right at Butch, the more chicken-shit of the pair. […]
Read MoreIN Summer 2018
The Santa Lucia station swarmed with security guards, choking off all water traffic. And Carlo sat sulking in his gondola, an American couple in his charge, their faces burning a […]
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IN Summer 2006
Toward the end of my short story “Rapture,” a small, wizened, evangelical grandmother called Meemaw, after speaking in tongues and describing the End Times in lurid detail, levitates for a […]
Read MoreBrunell Hair lived in a lopsided mill house with her mama and her uncle and her little withered-up critter of a grandmaw. In honor of her eleventh birthday, she was having […]
Read MoreIN Winter 2012