Spring 2025

This is part one of the serialized novel Try Not To Get Discouraged, which may be purchased from Amazon here met my wife for the first time at an art…

 Dale and Emily Fanelli discovered the black beach by accident in early 2001 while driving up the Maine coast on their honeymoon. They had stopped at a scenic overlook to…

It doesn’t trouble me when my mother forgets my name. She’s 83 and has been in the nursing home for months. A battery of health problems brought her in, but…

Tortured by a thirst that wasn’t physical,I forced myself to stagger forwardacross a sunless desert.An angel with six wings,two at his shoulders, two at hips,two at heels—a seraph, appeared to…

Here, the gods want a mighty groove, wild flight through the landscape, and a plentiful supply of Juju Junkfood. Scripture and sacrifice can be great, but they’re optional. Vestments and…

My life has always been the sum total of my decisions. No more, no less. One second I was in the bathroom at the tutoring center, zipping up my pants…

Now all our ghosts are leaving us,their absence neatly packedwith chilling cries and slamming doors.We lack their fuelling lack. But how, you ask, and wait, aren’t ghostsrequired to serve our…

They were traveling in a part of the country they had vacationed in for years, but they’d never been down this road before. The town was tiny, only two tourist-trap…

The packages arrive on Tuesdays in boxes that fold through dimensions that shouldn’t exist. Each one hums a different frequency of sorrow, cataloged carefully in my basement where grief crystallizes…

These poems are taken from Mildred Faintly’s just-published translation of the book, available from our bookstore here. Evensong(for my little sister) Place your little hand in mine,I’m here with you,…

It took Teddy first. This made sense in a way, because he was always running barefoot in the dirt and never washed his hands, but it was still surprising because…

My husband talks in his sleep. His chatter is about fixing things. Always. What exactly he is fixing is never clear. All I know is that they are so, so…

I will give a faithful account of the strange events that took place in the courtyard at the Archbishop’s residence. But to do so I will need to share some…

The Roof came down, and he was angry. There were more powerful gods in the house, MAAA chief among them. But MAAA rarely took enough form to interact with the…

Jim Cheff has begun posting animations of Lawrence: click for My Favorite Chair and Memories of Bruges

There’s a lot of humor to be found on YouTube,. Tanara Double Chocolate and True Facts are favorites, but nothing matches Jack Plotnick’s Comedic Shorts for wicked wit, campy surreal…