Fiction
Baby of the Family:
Love Lost, But Not Forgotten
By Douglas Scott Mickey
I once lived a lawless childhood of flawless wonder. To a child at play everything is for the taking, tasting and experiencing. The world is up for grabs. There are no barriers or consequences in a child’s imagination.
ESSAY
The Erotics of Restraint, or the Angel in the Novel: A Note on Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
By Douglas Glover
Call this an act of piety and self-education. Academia has sacrificed entire forests to the altar of Jane Austen, and I am not likely to add one whit to the pile. But her novel Mansfield Park has been gnawing at me for two decades, ever since I taught it at Skidmore College to a class of privileged young people who might have walked out of its pages.
inSerial: part six
Delusions of Being Observed
By Lewis Warsh
“You need a therapist,” Desiree says, when I tell her about Robert, and of course she’s right, now more than ever. I went to my first therapist when I was a junior at NYU. My father had stage-3 lung cancer and I took the bus to Lenox every weekend; he and my mother had separated years before but were living in the same town, maybe a mile apart.
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS
a misplaced bestiary
Part 6: The Responsible Echo Birds (Echoicoicae Mimimiata)
By Sid Gershgoren
Recent scientific research has conclusively shown that a certain small percentage (5%) of all echoes is purely the result of non-geologic, indeed biological resources.
two extracts from
Nights as Day, Days as Night
by Michel Leiris, translated from the French by Richard Sieburth. Out now from Spurl Editions.
Several of us are wandering all over the face of the continent by car, bus, and train. Crimes are taking place in isolated stations; the hotels we stay in are occasionally attacked by bandits and the thing to do is to pack a pistol.
Tragic Strip
By Tom MotleyT. Motley is the 2016 silver medalist in the Society of Illustrators' Short Form Comics competition, winning for a story he contributed to Cartozia Tales.
