Kim Church’s last story in Painted Bride Quarterly, “Bullet,” was included in Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories (W.W. Norton), The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus, and translated into Farsi as the title story in the 2009 Iranian anthology Golouleh. Her stories have also appeared in Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, North Carolina Literary Review, […]
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Denise Duhamel
Denise Duhamel’s most recent titles are The Star Spangled Banner (winner of Crab Orchard Poetry Prize, Southern Illinois University Press, 1999) and Oyl (a collaborative chapbook with Maureen Seaton, Pearl Editions, 2000). Her other books and chapbooks of poetry include: Exquisite Politics (a collaborative work with Maureen Seaton), Kinky, Girl Soldier, and How the Sky Fell. […]
Daniel Nester
Daniel Nester is a journalist, essayist, poet, editor, and teacher. His latest book, How to Be Inappropriate, is a collection of humorous nonfiction. Nester’s first two books, God Save My Queen (Soft Skull Press, 2003) and God Save My Queen II (2004), are collections on his obsession with the rock band Queen. His third, The […]
Matthew J. Sullivan: The Map-Makers’ Colors: A Fiction on Kosinski
(Quotations appear in bold) You entered this world in 1933, five months after Adolph Hitler came to power. It did not take him long to find your Poland. Your Poland could not hide. …having spent my childhood and adolescence during the war and postwar years in Eastern Europe, I knew that real events had been […]
David Kear: Jed’s Dead
Then the vessel of day cracked open and the night seeped in like black water. Drunk on hard wine. I knew it was going to be my last night on earth. Smoked a whole pack of cigarettes waiting on it. Molly fell asleep in the back room, waiting for me to come to bed. But […]
Nicole Hefner: El Christo Grande
The first time I did it I was seventeen. Johnny and I had been planning it for months. It was a Saturday, and the sky was that kind of crazy deep-blue that makes you think of tea cups, then your mother, and before you know it you’re sitting under an imaginary apple tree watching your […]