Issue 28
Latest Reviews
Featured Interview
Newest Essay

Plans for a Project

Bo Huston

“What follows are transcripts of interviews made sometime in the summer and autumn of 1983. I was so much younger then. I was sad, lonely, optimistic, radical (but a little too cautious to be radical). I took all the drugs that came my way, fucked with all the men who came my way … laughed a lot, but that was becoming a struggle.”

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Hyde Lake, Memphis

Ellis Elliott

“I want to tell you about the flock
of starlings, pinpricks like pixels,
shifting direction against the grid”

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It Being Fall

Matthew Roberson

“Out and out again into the car. He’s not driving. Not. He turns for the seat belt and reaches and then lets the woman lean over and take hold and pull it to close with a click. She’s driving, the woman.”

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The Waiting Dreamer

Blue Neustifter

“There were only two constants to the dreams: her and him. No matter where she was, no matter how lush or barren the landscape, he was there.”

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Reflections in a Window

Cástulo Aceves
Translated by Michael Langdon

“Two men appear at the door of the airport. The first of them is the client; the second, much older, an investigator. They feel the cold air of the country they are visiting, on a continent where they are foreigners.”

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Buy the Buoy

Evan Nicholls

“‘Buy the buoy,’ said the salesman.
‘No,’ said the person back.”

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A Sudden Set of Stairs

Evan Nicholls

“Nobody asked for it, but there it is. In the way of honking cars and bighorn sheep and clementine oranges. People yelling for it to get out of the way, and watch out.”

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Excerpt from Fieldwork

Vilde Fastvold
Translated by Wendy H. Gabrielsen

“In the institute corridors, people whisper that having sex in the field is something everyone does, but no one talks about. I haven’t asked anyone if it’s true because I’d rather console myself with the thought that fieldwork is messy and can’t be pinned down by ethical absolutes.”

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Agónico Marcial 1960 – 1994

Israel Bonilla

“Agónico’s childhood belongs to myth, and it is now irretrievable. We know with confidence that he was born in Visalia. All other information has been gleaned from his letters to Segura.”

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Listen to This

David Wojciechowski

Not the sound of a real cricket, but an electric one. That’s what I’m hearing. The stone against stone.

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The Chinkhoswe

J.G. Jesman

“Chitsanzo, whose name means “example,” is very pleased with his outfit for the wedding. He has no idea who is getting married, but the local saying is that, Ants don’t need an invitation to enjoy sugar.”

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Excerpt from Fishflies: the Men of the Riverhouse

Marream Krollos

“I waited for Otis to knock on the door of 716, I knew I would recognize the knock. I stared at the door as if … my heart, my stomach, my limbs were bats sending sonar out the door, into the Riverhouse.”

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The House

Nikki Barnhart

“When my childhood was over, I moved out. There was a big, old house on the far end of town, convenient to nothing. No one wanted to go over there, much less live, but I could afford it, everything that it had to offer.”

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As Beautiful As It Is

Evan Williams

“I allow that you may carry me upon your back while it is that we walk. I will hold equally onto everything in my life and in yours.”

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Torch Song of Myself

Dale Peck

“The first man I was sexually attracted to was Luke Skywalker. The first man I loved shot one of his johns when he was fifteen. The first man I had sex with was my best friend in college.”

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Excerpt from Marriage

Marina Mariasch
Translated by Ellen Jones

“In relationships, everything that matters is hidden and should remain so for the benefit of all major stakeholders. Dirty laundry is a research tool that allows us to penetrate the deepest folds of the conjugal fabric.”

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Tijuana

By Victoria Ballesteros

“In dreams, I glide past borders and through concrete doors to reach places I have never left. I fly over green picket fences and bougainvillea trees adorned with slivers of the past.”

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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