Our Prayers After The Fire : An Excerpt
Katie Jean Shinkle04.01.15
Katie Jean Shinkle shares two fragments of bullets and love and hiding from her latest book available from Blue Square Press.
AFTERMATH
Gary J. Shipley03.11.15
“I’m so ruined that the woman looking out to sea has a clown’s nose and a big fuck-off grin. That’s how much I’ve invested in the unreality of joy.” Jarring new short fiction from Gary J. Shipley.
Excerpt from American Homes
Ryan Ridge03.04.15
An excerpt from Ryan Ridge’s sublime and hypnotic database of features of what surrounds us, American Homes.
Create Your Own Atrocity: Jessica Hilt’s “Atrocity”
The Fanzine02.18.15
The second of three winners of the Create Your Own Atrocity contest, selected and illustrated by John Dermot Woods.
Two Fictions
Sally Rodgers01.21.15
Sally Rodgers offers up two fictions, one a salve and one a weapon, in this exclusive preview of Caketrain Issue 12.
CORNEA.
Shane Jesse Christmass01.07.15
“Light on a petrified substance. Nowhere. Nothing yet you cling to this nothing. You don’t exist. Nostrils opening. A particular liquid injected. Locusts. Lobsters. They wheel you in. A diagnosis, a substance induced state.”
Appetite
Scott Daughtridge12.17.14
“Do you like choking on my food?” Meet your new dominatrix, in the form of short fiction by Scott Daughtridge.
Untitled Interview
Jimmy Chen12.10.14
“So, to clarify, just one last time: your novel isn’t Untitled, or Not Titled, but simply not titled, in the sense that there is a void where one might expect a title to be.” Insider info on Jimmy Chen’s untitled novel, from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Pray to St. Anthony
Fiona Helmsley11.19.14
Sex and arson fold over on memory in a new short fiction by Fiona Helmsley. Art by Danny Jock.
