“Birthday Party at a Pool” by Tamar Jacobs
For how many more years will you host the birthday pool party with the pizza and the cake from the grocery store . . .
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Read an excerpt from Some Go Hungry by J. Patrick Redmond
Read an excerpt from Some Go Hungry by J. Patrick Redmond, the latest novel from Akashic’s Kaylie Jones Books imprint.
“Bake and Licks” by Lisa Allen-Agostini
He used to beat she like a snake. When he done, she skin so black and blue and swell she look just like the Southern Main Road. . .
Excerpt from the Introduction by Neal Pollack
Upon John Quincy Adams’s commencement of studies where all future Presidents get their start—at the University of Leyden, in Holland—his father, John Adams, gave him some advice. According to David McCullough’s Adams biography, your one-stop shopping source for all things John Adams, it was a paternal imperative that John Quincy attend all lectures possible in […]
“Little Men of the NCAA” by Sean Murphy
This is what I do. I take Mickey over to Nemo’s. It’s right across the river from the track. Still a pain in the ass though. Rillito was flooded, monsoons and all . . .
Excerpt from “Trouble Is a Lonesome Town” by Cathi Unsworth, from London Noir
(King’s Cross) Dougie arrived at the concourse opposite the station just half an hour after it had all gone off. He’d had the cab driver drop him down the end of Gray’s Inn Road, outside a pub on the corner there, where he’d made a quick dive into the gents to remove the red hood […]
Read “Father, Father,” Garfield Ellis’s story from Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean
To celebrate the release of his new novel The Angels’ Share, today we’re pleased to feature author Garfield Ellis’s story from Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean.
“No Time Like the Past” by Matthew Sharpe
There’s no time like the past, Steven thought as he entered his time machine. He found himself in the maternity ward of a small rural hospital at 8 am on April 16, 1971—the day he was to be born . . .