I’m at a script meeting with writer/producer Jenji Kohan when she asks me to write a scene for Weeds. We have no pen or paper so I sketch some ideas using white‐out on a bunch of empty potato chip bags. The actors are in the room with us and some type of Hollywood Magic compels […]
Issue 91
Navid Sinaki: In My Mother’s Full Veil
i always thought it strange when my mother would pray in a full veil and my father in his briefs. he was always a few steps ahead cause it was implemented for her to be behind, even though my dad scratched his pits between surahs. thus, home alone as a boy i wanted to pray […]
Charlotte Simmonds: Here at the Miniature Zoo
One night my friend holds a dinner party. It is a Viking dinner party. Feasting for feisty Vikings. But not just any feisty Vikings. It is a dinner party for Feisty vegan Vikings. Strictly feisty vegan Vikings. Vegan Vikings who quaff ale and mead, Sop slabs of bread into hearty broths With which they swill […]
Christina Shideler: Stick a Fork in Me
Girl, I want to carve you up like a Christmas ham, put my glaze on you with a cherry on top. You be lookin so good the whole FAMILY want a piece. And I’d roast you bone in, know what I mean? I wanna serve you up on a god damn cornucopia, laid on a […]
Christina Shideler: Dat Ass Tho
Shakin it like two flour sacks, like two massage motors in a Sharper Image chair like a pair of water balloons bursting in slow motion workin that jelly, that tapioca, that pancake batter, shakin dat thing like alternative energy like dat ass was gonna power a pickup, a coupe or sedan, like you were tryin […]
Ali Shapiro: Hook
Your hand was not enough—I want the rest. The taste just whet my appetite for lean, mean meat, your salty pirate’s flesh. I dream your ship gone low and leaky, and your men all drowned, so I get you alone, as motherless as the boy you’re chasing, as the sea itself. And in the dream, […]