Fiction & Poetry

PHOTOGRAPH: CHARLES COHEN “PIC_071”(2001)/BONNI BENRUBI GALLERY
FICTION: If I Vanished, by Stuart Dybek
“Were you kidnapped? Abducted by aliens? An extraordinary rendition by the C.I.A.? Did you fall down a rabbit hole? Was it amnesia? Vanishing cream? Did you meet someone else? Was there a note? A message on my answering machine saying, ‘“Goodbye”’s too good a word, babe, don’t worry, ciao’? Should I show up at the Department of Missing Persons? Or by ‘vanish’ do you mean that all trace of you would be wiped from my memory?”…

FICTION

Homework

by Helen Simpson

Poem

Sunday Morning Walk

by Clive James

POEM

Venice

by James Longenbach
PHOTOGRAPH: CAMILLE VIVIER, “RED LOVERS” (2000)/BIRD PRODUCTION
FICTION: The Mahagony Elephant, by Maxim Biller.
He waited for her for three months. He sorted out his photos, rearranged his books, moved the furniture around, and then he went on waiting. After that, he read all the letters he had ever received and threw most of them away…
POEM: Hands, by Jean Sprackland
 
07 04, 2007
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