By: James Parker

“I am here to take this story by the throat.”

By: James Parker

“Fuck the rhyme, the sacred slime / that sticks the words together!”

By: Todd Levin

“It was an elaborate contraption — really, more of a trap.”

By: Terese Svoboda

“Dear Wicked One…”

By: Teddy Blanks

“you took off on your scooter,/leaving the porcelain one to me”

By: Sloane Crosley

“It contains the hopes, dreams, and death visions of Michael Jackson.”

By: Sari Wilson

“We treated it with the scornful irony we began to feel for each other.”

By: Rebecca Wolff

“Your faith alone will buoy it on the waters of Armaggedon…”

By: Nathaniel Rich

“You will be left only with the answers the rhinoceros has already given you…”

By: Naomi Novik

“IF Found PLEASE RETURN”

By: Michael Atkinson

“a molded little brick of pig iron in the shape of a sea captain…”

By: Kathryn Borel Jr.

“Marc got the medal because he was the oldest and my father loved him best.”

By: Katharine Weber

“She was meticulous about the tiniest things.”

By: Jonathan Goldstein

“And how do you spell what you put in a toaster?”

By: Bruno Maddox

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