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Fiction: “Now Walt”

Fiction: “Now Walt”

It’s terrible, Walt thought, the way humans chew up the world wherever they go. Gnashing through the Earth like one big chomping mouth.

Posted on November 23, 2022 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction6 Minutes Read

Fiction: ‘Familiar Burdens’

Fiction: ‘Familiar Burdens’

And all of a sudden my dead grandpa and I were walking side-by-side down a desert highway.

Posted on February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction5 Minutes Read

Ghosts Without Faces

Ghosts Without Faces

Reflections on fatherhood and family history.

Posted on August 1, 2021August 1, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction13 Minutes Read

A Long Way from Harbor Island

A Long Way from Harbor Island

Every time something major is poised to happen in my life, my wife, Caitlin, and I split for the coast. This is a deliberate action.

Posted on January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction15 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘Cincinnati Does Not Exist’

Fiction Pick: ‘Cincinnati Does Not Exist’

Jo never thought of himself as a river guy, per se, yet one morning he awoke in a canoe, floating down a body of water that clearly was a river.

Posted on December 26, 2020January 7, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction20 Minutes Read

Just Keep Living, Kid

Just Keep Living, Kid

There’s no telling how these things will play out, what his life will hold for him, because right now he’s just an idea, a bump in Caitlin’s stomach.

Posted on October 4, 2020October 5, 2020 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction10 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘Everything is happening at once’

Fiction Pick: ‘Everything is happening at once’

America, the vast and simultaneous.

Posted on September 23, 2020September 24, 2020 by Andy MoonIn Essays & Fiction13 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘Me and Konrad’

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.’

Posted on August 30, 2020August 30, 2020 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction6 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘Flower, beast or Hitler’

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.

Posted on August 16, 2020August 16, 2020 by Andy MoonIn Essays & Fiction12 Minutes Read

Fiction Pick: ‘The Eternal Forking’

Fiction Pick: ‘The Eternal Forking’

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

Posted on July 21, 2020July 23, 2020 by Andy MoonIn Essays & Fiction10 Minutes Read

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