The Arrival I sit in a Kansas diner, looking out a grime-streaked window. I do not know what I’m doing. I am thinking of something but I cannot say exactly…

Tries taking advantage of stage with ‘Power of Three’ presentation The odd-shaped rounded figure reckons no one’s really watching him. People mill in clusters among the protest tents, food stations…

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…