Young Tawni Freeland learns that the red fern grows between two dead dogs.

In which Keith Dixon learns to fasten his his seatbelt.

Lisa Cihlar follows the ghastly trail made by the shrieking of nerves.

Summer Block reveals four little-known benefits of natural childbirth.

Come abuse Peter Schwartz. No really—he wants you to.

Peter Schwartz reveals part two of his ‘Letters to Air’.

Tom Hansen transposes elements of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment onto a brief story of his lives and crimes

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009. I’m in my room on Albert Street in Augusta Maine, being held hostage. A woman almost a decade my junior has just told me she was raped last night, but for some reason she is directing all her rage at me.

When you enter the country of Pain, they confiscate your passport. You leave behind the things and people that used to feel important and familiar, in which you used to believe. Everyone in the new country is a stranger, though it scarcely matters because pain is really a nation of islands, and everyone who lives [...]