Choose Your Own Predestined FateJoshua Bohnsack$10.00
You got the job! You’re surprisingly good at it. And if you weren’t, your mom would kill you, so it’s a win-win. Clients don’t hate you, and in fact you’re learning a lot about architecture, and construction, and interior design, and you make enough money to move into your own apartment and furnish it with an expensive lamp that doesn’t make the futon next to it look any nicer, but when you pull that little chain, it feels like the first time in your life you have accomplished something.
Joshua Bohnsack is a writer and musician. His work has been featured in Fence, AGNI, and The Rumpus, among others, and he is publisher of Long Day Press. Bohnsack grew up on a farm and moved to Chicago where he plays in the bands Gold Dust and Casts.
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The Dentist
Mary Gaitskill$10.00
The next evening she called the dentist. She pretended to have a question about the computer, and he said, “I want you to press ‘alt.’” The banality, the politeness, and the harmless hint of command were all accentuated by the abstracted context and took interesting forms in her imagination. Happily, she visualized all kinds of things he might want her to do.
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don’t Cry, and the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for the National Book Award), and Two Girls, Fat and Thin. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Artforum, and Granta, among many other journals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
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The Forthcoming
Torrey Paquette$10.00
He comes out of his office, pulls up a chair. “Five weeks from today,” the filmmaker says, “the executives want to screen episode one, the full hour. If they don’t like what they see, they pull the plug. That’s what they say at least, who knows.” He takes off his glasses, rubs his eyes. “What I do know is, we’ve stalled out. Where’s Altman, Hassabis, Kurzweil? The series is incomplete without those voices.” He puts his glasses on. “What are you doing to nail down those interviews?”
“Making calls,” I say. “Sending emails.”
Torrey Paquette is a writer and documentary producer. His work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Drift, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Vox, and on PBS. He holds an M.A. from the Bread Loaf School of English. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Neha, and their two children.
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Guts
Kimberly King Parsons$10.00
When I start dating Tim, an almost-doctor, all of the sick, broken people in the world begin to glow. Light pours from careful limpers in the streets, from the wheezers and wet coughers who stop right in front of me to twist out their lungs. People I once found gross or contagious are radiant, gleaming with need.
Kimberly King Parsons is a National Book Award nominee and the bestselling author of We Were the Universe, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, winner of the Oregon Book Award, a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award and the Texas Book Award, a Dakota Johnson Book Club pick ranked #2 on Time Magazine’s Best Books of 2024, and a best book of the year in Elle, Oprah Daily, Marie Claire, Marie Claire UK, and others. Parsons’s debut collection, Black Light, was a finalist for the Edmund White Award, the Story Prize, and the Texas Institute of Letters Award. Parsons teaches at Pacific University and writes the Substack First Breath. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Angela Qian$10.00
The fog rolled in again around an hour later, but we were made up by then and there was no more mood in the air. I touched the back of his neck, and his face, and felt his shining intellect, which was my favorite part of his body. All that’s to say: it is what it is. At the end of the day, it can be hard dating a politician.
Angela Qian is a writer living in Brooklyn. She holds a BA in fiction from Brown University. She is pursuing her MFA at Brooklyn College, where she is a Truman Capote Fellow. 979-8-9930072-9-8
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The Next Round
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Buy the our second round of five books as one bundle.
Includes Choose Your Own Predestined Fate, The Dentist, The Forthcoming, Guts, and The Interpretation of Dreams.
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TankIsabelle Appleton$10.00
I had a lot of ideas about redemption. Mostly that it was good, something our bodies wanted and moved naturally towards. I was interested in absolutes. I liked the virtues temperance, mercy, and grace. In Scripture, the Prodigal Son is welcomed back into his father’s house even when he doesn’t ask for restoration, nor sufficiently repents for his misconduct. The only precondition for the forgiveness of debt is its existence, and I wanted to be someone who forgave.
Isabelle Appleton’s work can be found in print and online in Joyland, Conjunctions, The New England Review, The Washington Square Review, Protean Magazine, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Fiction from NYU, where she was a Goldwater Fellow, and received the Alpine Fellowship and Thesis Research Award. Originally from St. Louis, she lives in Brooklyn.
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Jim MartiniMichael Bible$10.00
He said everyone famous was drinking the blood of children. He went on and on like that, for like an hour, about the blood of children and all the people out there who enjoyed drinking it. Then he told us to get out of the ice baths and follow him to the woods. We came to a clearing and found the excavator digging holes, steaming like a dragon. There was a hole for each of us.
Michael Bible is the author of five novels including The Ancient Hours, Little Lazarus, and The Terrible, forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press. He's the screenwriter of the feature film Dogleg, now streaming on MUBI. Originally from North Carolina, he lives in New York City.
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This Is a Picture of Michael JacksonAugust Lamm$10.00
Once the plane was aloft, the woman returned with a hot towelette, which she deposited into my hands from a set of steel tongs. Performing cleanliness, I wiped the front and back of both hands and the skin between all my fingers. The woman reclaimed the cold towelette and then laid a gray linen placemat on my tray table. You’ll be joining us for dinner? she asked.
August Lamm is a writer and visual artist in New York. Her short fiction has appeared in Muumuu House and Forever Magazine. Her essays have appeared in the Guardian and the New York Times. She has two books forthcoming from Vintage.
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SasquatchTao Lin$10.00
….nothing really changed, and she went to college in New York City, where sometimes, in bed and unsleepy, the rest of her life would quickly assemble and disassemble, as if some faraway eye had glimpsed the entire idea of her, by accident, and had not noticed, really, but subconsciously dismissed it, as an optical illusion….
Tao Lin is the author of ten books. His next book is titled Reasons to Live. He lives in Hawaii.
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