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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

Fiction Pick: ‘The Old Caver’

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.

Posted on October 19, 2020October 20, 2020 by Kyle PerrottiIn Essays & Fiction12 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

Fiction Pick: ‘Surface’

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?”

Posted on May 24, 2020May 28, 2020 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction6 Minutes Read

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