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Backchannel Read carefully each word in Backchannel, for you are warned: “Every word in this poem is a dead body.” Doughnuts and young vegetables, couches …

Vs. Death Noises by Marcus Pactor In the final story of Marcus Pactor’s Vs. Death Noises, a man discovers a single hair in his bathroom …

Ever since I got here, I have been on guard. What I eat, what I drink, what I breathe. It is scary as hell. Panic, …

Shelf Unbound: How did you become interested in London’s works, and what about his writing most appeals to you? Earle Labor: I first became interested …

Excerpt from “The Red List: A Poem” by Stephen Cushman Endangerment’s foreplay en route to extinction often but not always. Ask the bald eagle, ridiculous …

“Gazelle in the House” by Lisa Williams A gazelle in the house means tender, breaking silence. An approach calibrating hesitation. Something held out in the hand. …

Later on he will see it differently, but it starts out as a kind of war. Or, at least, a series of escalating skirmishes. He …

shelf unbound What’s a typical starting point for you in writing a story, for example the guy who hooks up with a celebrity at a …

shelfunbound What’s a typical starting point for you in writing a story, for example rebounding 30-year-old Price Chopper employee Carla in her “transitional phase,” in …

By the eighth month of their pregnancy, two more neighborhood teenagers and an elderly couple had died. A young gangster was killed on his way …