Sippin’ on Tall Boys via the Interweb with Chris Terry
January 15, 2014
By Matt Martin Chris Terry is a big deal.  His first novel, Zero Fade, has received rave reviews from Slate…
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Excerpt From Chris Terry’s Zero Fade
January 15, 2014
Those Guesses My legs were pins and needles. I walked into the girls’ clothing store, fingering the folded-up ten in…
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The Physical and Mental Prowess of Defectives by Dawn Wilson
January 12, 2014
Bob could fold sheets. He could do it real swell. Crisp. He would spend upwards of two hours on a…
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Hypertext Interview with Luis Jaramillo
January 9, 2014
By Sahar Mustafah The Doctor’s Wife by Luis Jaramillo won the Dzanc Short Story Collection contest and was published in…
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Hypertext Interview with Eugene Cross
January 8, 2014
By Allison Sobczak It was around this time last year, on one of my many random excursions to the bookstore,…
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Hypertext Interview with Jim Gavin
January 6, 2014
By Sahar Mustafah Jim Gavin’s short story collection debut Middle Men offers a tragic, yet often humorous array of characters…
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The World’s Tiniest String Quartet by Jasmine Neosh
December 30, 2013
“There are different degrees of mutilation and some are more pointless than others,” she says, pulling delicately at a silk…
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Grape Juice in a Catholic Church Parking Lot with Jessie Foley
December 30, 2013
By Matt Martin When bitter winds moved the good times inside, Six Packs in the Park became Malort in a…
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Best Lasagna Ever by Viki Gonia
December 28, 2013
This will make 3 large, deep pans of lasagna. I could try to figure out how to adjust it for…
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Claire Vaye Watkins’s Battleborn
December 26, 2013
By Sahar Mustafah There has been much lamentation about the decline of the short story collection. If it’s not an…
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I was Stalked in High School by Amber Drea
December 23, 2013
I grew up in Eastern Connecticut and spent my teenage years in a small, working-class, rural town. In junior high,…
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Six Pack in the Park: Mason Johnson
December 19, 2013
By Matt Martin Cole’s Bar doesn’t necessarily fit the bill of trendy Logan Square.  The sign out front is nice, no…
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Hypertext Interview with Black Bear/Brown Bear
December 17, 2013
By Jessie Foley By day, Sergio Santillan is an English teacher at Taft High School in Chicago. By night, he…
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Alternate Ending by Ira Brooker
December 17, 2013
In the alternate ending, you don’t die. In the alternate ending, you take my advice and call your cousin in…
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Interview No. 6: Starting Out
December 17, 2013
By Dermot Cory Cory: So just to start out, can you give me a brief description of how you actually…
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Six Pack in the Park: Don De Grazia
December 17, 2013
By Matt Martin This past summer, I met up with Don De Grazia before the start of the Softball Fury’s…
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Interview with Bill Satek from Mines
December 17, 2013
By Ramon Castillo Since 2008, Mines has been honing their set throughout the Chicago underground music scene, letting loose their…
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Writing Blindly by Deb R. Lewis
December 17, 2013
August 3rd, 2009 I kissed my wife, Gail, before the two-hour drive I’ve been making every few days from Chicago…
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VALENTINE’S DAY
February 13, 2013
Praise for VALENTINE’S DAY by Don De Grazia: “Hold onto your hearts, folks, this eminently readable tale about the redemptive…
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Spiraling by Noelle Aleksandra Hufnagel
February 13, 2013
When Veronica tells me she’s leaving, as she’s saying the words, I begin to imagine all the ways she might…
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When Sparks Fly; When Doves Cry by Julia Borcherts
February 13, 2013
WEEK ONE It’s my first night of welding school. I’m standing in a simulated shop with twenty-three men. We’re all…
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Romeo and Juliet by Jessie Morrison
February 13, 2013
Every year at about this time I teach Romeo and Juliet to a new crop of freshman English students, and…
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Confessions of a Fourth Grade Love Slut by Darwyn Jones
February 13, 2013
I, Danny Boyer, was a fourth grade love slut I loved Julie Sadowski because she sat next to me. I…
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And Then There’s Me by Cyn Vargas
February 13, 2013
Of all the days, it was on my birthday when I realized that Steve had a crush on the pretty…
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RUDY, MY LOVE
February 13, 2013
By Meredith Counts
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The Trains in Tokyo by Amanda E. Snyder
February 13, 2013
You should know that if you ever go to Japan, you will never, ever pour your own drink. A carafe…
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Empirical Evidence by Wyl Villacres
February 13, 2013
Carol and I were supposed to be together.  This is a fact, but it is a fact that I cannot…
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Sleep Freedom by Matt Martin
February 13, 2013
I’m six-foot-three.  It’s a fact.  My official medical records prove it:  Matt Martin is six foot three. I swear. I’m…
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I Was Almost a Navy Wife by Virginia Baker
February 13, 2013
I was almost a Navy wife. And by almost I mean that I was dating a Navy guy for a…
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Firsts by René Cousineau
February 13, 2013
May 28th 2007 Mason comes over to my mom’s house and we watch M in the basement. His hair is…
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