November 2010
4 posts
In our current issue (33:3): Fiction by R. T....
Our current issue features a short story by R.T. Smith, “First Meeting.” Here is an excerpt:
“Hey there. My name is Connie Aderholt, and I’m an alcoholic. From way back. About the time I changed from Conrad to Connie after a baseball player, that was when I got hooked on hooch. All kinds, canned brew to cinnamon schnapps, Mateus to single-barrel scotch. Fifteen, just...
In our current issue (33:3): Fiction by Tien-Yi...
Our latest issue features “How I Came to Love You Like a Brother,” a short story by Tien-Yi Lee that depicts, among other things, an unlikely marriage, through the eyes of the bride’s sister. Here is an excerpt:
“They married quickly, in City Hall. Lucia wore a sparkly tank top with pink bicycle pants. She beamed, like a bride. Yonah wore his best khakis, a wrinkled...
In our current issue (33:3): Fiction by Dionne...
Our current issue features a short story by Dionne Irving, “Florida Lives.” It depicts a married couple who move to Florida and encounter troubling neighbors, troubling bat colonies, and familiar insects with unfamiliar names, among other things. It is hard to know what to excerpt from it, as all of it is so excerptable, so here is its opening:
“Roaches don’t die easy...
“You have to be at least twice as smart internally as you hope to be demonstrably...”
– Nicholson Baker, U and I 