Fiction Pick: ‘The Old Caver’

Arturo was nearly an old caver and dreaded becoming like the men who would drink rum and share their own legends throughout the night.

Fiction Pick: A Couple of Parables

Andy Moon’s two most recent works of short fiction: “The Genius” and “The Dungeon.”

Fiction Pick: ‘Everything is happening at once’

America, the vast and simultaneous.

Fiction Pick: ‘Me and Konrad’

‘Given what I’d done, and the speed with which they were pursuing me, my only reasonable course of action was to disappear into the woods.’

Fiction Pick: ‘Flower, beast or Hitler’

At that point in my life, there was a lot of — how should I put this — fumbling around in the dark.

Free, like a blackbird pecking trash

Walking may not be the most practical mode of transportation. But there’s something magical about strolling around a city.

Fiction Pick: ‘The Eternal Forking’

‘Small decisions, elongated over time, can be just as consequential as big ones.’

Fiction Pick: ‘A Few Examples of Apathy and Randomness in Our Universe’

Strive to become the pirate.

Fiction Pick: ‘Writings of a River Stranger’

The following excerpt was taken from a notebook discovered on a bench by the Ohio River in Pittsburgh. It contains the thoughts and feelings of a creature who claims to be a “Flussfremder.”

Fiction Pick: ‘Surface’

‘All Paul could think about as he tried to maneuver his way around a lethargic old lady in the cereal aisle of Food Lion was ‘Good God, you old hag, could you move any slower?”