It’s not often that you get to see what happens when a modern day writer attempts to rewrite a literary masterpiece using a laundromat as his setting and talking clothes as his characters. This is probably...
Meet Wallace, who wakes up to find out that he is running out of time; or Mario who will be walking in circles before facing his lot in a place he’s never been before; or even Claire a woman who needs some...
"What could happen next besides gravity, besides the falling? The windshield smashed. Glass shattered, grains of glass hung suspended in confused air. Seconds elongated. Their guts compressed like they were...
I have absolutely no idea how to describe this story. I read a lot. And I’ve read a lot of translations. And they always strike me as being just a little off and missing just a little something. Somehow, with...
Adam Maxwell's first collection of short stories is inventive, funny, dark, and hugely entertaining. Effortlessly fusing pop culture, gunplay, and simians, Dial M For Monkey contains a vibrant mixture of short...
Naming your main character Tom means something in American literature. The Ghosts' of Sawyer and Joad haunt that character from page one. But in The Letter, instead of hiding behind the memorable characterizations...
Marcus has been on the run for decades from the violence that scarred him as a child in South Africa. Now his past has caught up to him. It happens now, the sirens and the silence. It happens now, the sirens...
So what becomes of us as we lose our faculties? Where do we go and what secrets do we learn? And do we discover that all our sacrifices were worthwhile?
Abrams Porter. Plumber. Smart, sexy, single. Every woman's best friend. And falling hard for Nina, the long-legged vision he met at a hot dog stand. A short, sharp story about love, pickup trucks, relish, Twizzlers,...
I ended up back by the bar, but Kevin and his friends were gone—vanished into a crowd of painfully cool Karma drones. I was about to go track him down when someone spoke at my elbow. “It’s all fake, you...
