Sweaty’s mother sweeps into town to break it up, reminding her son of loftier callings The wheelchair whirs into the grieving, traumatized post-revolutionary crowd in Kyiv’s Independence Square. It is…

The Conversation How’s it going, Jack? All right, I suppose. Well, that’s good. Something weighing on your mind? Yeah. I don’t know how to put it. Everything’s poisoned. What do…

The Conversation Continues He asks me what the poison is. I don’t know precisely what he means, what he might be driving at. I figure it could mean anything –…

It’s a bright light morning in Podil. The sun is warm but the air is cold, the sky all baby-blue, clear of any clouds, not a wisp of white in…

Editorial Board leaves writings up for the record in four frames Included in This Frame: First Materials: A Pseudo Film Review of an Unidentified Director’s Work over Half a Century…

An Argument in Favor of Naming the Other Authors on the Covers of Some of Shakespeare’s Plays, Vigorously Mocked and Contested A Parody of Most of the Writers Published in…

A Strange and Disturbing Story of an Old Man Competing in a Poorly Rated American TV Talent Show Writer 1, or 2 [or 4], but not 3: Gramps It was…

Old Man Eerily Gathers Armed Cult Following in the Millions A Young Unspecified Agent Arrives in Area of Old Man’s Suspected Provenance in Search of Details, Information Regarding His Identity…

Manny Face briefly contemplates some films noir – “In a Lonely Place”, “The Killers”, “Out of the Past” Listening to Echo & the Bunnymen change in my player from “Heaven…

Smith shows up with curious silences among a few things of no significance to say So what is this? The fifth, sixth, seventh time this fucking bagel joint’s being written…