Tag: fiction
An Interview with Lydi Conklin
Former Assistant Editor Lily Davenport interviews author Lydi Conklin about writing for queer readers, drawing comics, and more.
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Fiction Special Feature: “Self-Care,” by Brett Hymel Jr.
Only an elite few stories take up residence in your memory as visceral reading experiences. Brett Hymel Jr.’s “Self-Care” is one such story.
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miCRo: “A Village Tries On Her Skin,” by A. A. Balaskovits
In this Shirley Jackson-like fable, A. A. Balaskovits gives us a glimpse into collective cruelty and our age-old fear of, and fascination with, difference.
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miCRo: “The News” by Laurie Blauner
From the very first line of “The News,” we’re plunged into an absurdist reality that we slowly come to realize is just reality as we know it.
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“Pigboy and His Artificial Jesus” by Patrick J. Zhou
Winner of the 2024 Robert and Adele Schiff Award in fiction At night I kept my Jesus folded small...
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“Extinction Studies” by Shane Joaquin Jimenez
In the days following the tragedy, after the funerals were over and even the local papers had...
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miCRo: “Push-Pull” by Robert Warf
In Robert Warf’s “Push-Pull,” driving yields a kind of oppositional syntax.
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miCRo: “(FG+FD+FM+FB) = ” by M.E. Macuaga
Projectile motion as we knew it. The calculable, imaginable universe.
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7 Minute Author Interview: Ananda Lima
An interview with author Ananda Lima, one of four writers participating in UC’s Fiction Festival
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5 Minute Author Interview: Adam Ehrlich Sachs
An interview with novelist Adam Ehrlich Sachs, one of four writers participating in UC’s Fiction Festival
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5 Minute Author Interview: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
An interview with novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin, one of four writers participating in UC’s Fiction Festival
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miCRo: “Melody” by Jason R. Chun
And I was ready for it, the salt-laced soap stinging red at the corners of my vision, waterfall over my eyeballs, and Mel’s messages front and center, lurid but legible. I was ready to delete.
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