“Late-Night Phone Calls” by Noriko Nakada

Issue 14 / Summer 2018   My eyes were still adjusting to life in LA, to the void of stars in a navy sky, to the helicopter and airplane lights hovering above, to the brown haze always on the horizon, when the phone calls started. The phone calls usually came late...

“The Tomb of the Pharaoh” by Alec Osthoff

Issue 14 / Summer 2018   Caleb’s kitchen table is covered in penises. There must be hundreds of them.  Some are inked in red, some in blue, some are carved. A few notable specimens are bordered with glitter. They are almost all flaccid and uncircumcised—so...

“OPSEC” by Liz Egan

Issue 14 / Summer 2018   Heather Lawrence lives alone in a townhouse on Long Island. Her husband died when the towers came down. Her only son Paul was a boy then, but now he is eighteen and enlisted in the Marines. Now he is in Afghanistan somewhere, searching...

Culture Rant: Issue 14 / Summer 2018

“He Too”: What Happens in the Arts When the Innovators Fall?   My “Me Too” statement, which debuted on social media at the height of last year’s clamor over the various high-profile men accused of abusing women, was this: “Me too, more times than I...

“Men in Trees” by Martha Moffett

Issue 13 / Spring 2018   Morgan Mayfield was, by and large, a contented man. That was why, when the brochure came in the mail, he threw the glossy envelope unopened into the large cane wastebasket that sat under the table in the hall.  The second time it arrived,...