Alternate Ending by Ira Brooker
December 17, 2013
In the alternate ending, you don’t die. In the alternate ending, you take my advice and call your cousin in…
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Interview No. 6: Starting Out
December 17, 2013
By Dermot Cory Cory: So just to start out, can you give me a brief description of how you actually…
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Six Pack in the Park: Don De Grazia
December 17, 2013
By Matt Martin This past summer, I met up with Don De Grazia before the start of the Softball Fury’s…
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Interview with Bill Satek from Mines
December 17, 2013
By Ramon Castillo Since 2008, Mines has been honing their set throughout the Chicago underground music scene, letting loose their…
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Writing Blindly by Deb R. Lewis
December 17, 2013
August 3rd, 2009 I kissed my wife, Gail, before the two-hour drive I’ve been making every few days from Chicago…
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VALENTINE’S DAY
February 13, 2013
Praise for VALENTINE’S DAY by Don De Grazia: “Hold onto your hearts, folks, this eminently readable tale about the redemptive…
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Spiraling by Noelle Aleksandra Hufnagel
February 13, 2013
When Veronica tells me she’s leaving, as she’s saying the words, I begin to imagine all the ways she might…
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When Sparks Fly; When Doves Cry by Julia Borcherts
February 13, 2013
WEEK ONE It’s my first night of welding school. I’m standing in a simulated shop with twenty-three men. We’re all…
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Romeo and Juliet by Jessie Morrison
February 13, 2013
Every year at about this time I teach Romeo and Juliet to a new crop of freshman English students, and…
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Confessions of a Fourth Grade Love Slut by Darwyn Jones
February 13, 2013
I, Danny Boyer, was a fourth grade love slut I loved Julie Sadowski because she sat next to me. I…
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And Then There’s Me by Cyn Vargas
February 13, 2013
Of all the days, it was on my birthday when I realized that Steve had a crush on the pretty…
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RUDY, MY LOVE
February 13, 2013
By Meredith Counts
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The Trains in Tokyo by Amanda E. Snyder
February 13, 2013
You should know that if you ever go to Japan, you will never, ever pour your own drink. A carafe…
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Empirical Evidence by Wyl Villacres
February 13, 2013
Carol and I were supposed to be together.  This is a fact, but it is a fact that I cannot…
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Sleep Freedom by Matt Martin
February 13, 2013
I’m six-foot-three.  It’s a fact.  My official medical records prove it:  Matt Martin is six foot three. I swear. I’m…
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I Was Almost a Navy Wife by Virginia Baker
February 13, 2013
I was almost a Navy wife. And by almost I mean that I was dating a Navy guy for a…
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Firsts by René Cousineau
February 13, 2013
May 28th 2007 Mason comes over to my mom’s house and we watch M in the basement. His hair is…
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REDBIRD
February 13, 2013
By Daniel Nathan Terry May-Nell Wilson opened the bag of Wonder Bread, bypassed the heel, took out the first slice,…
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Shattered by Gary Beck
February 13, 2013
When love has departedand only bitter dreams remain,I think of midnight meetingsas we groped like two deaflings,eager to touch each…
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Personal Prince Charming by Gibson Culbreth
February 13, 2013
Let’s talk about love.  It’s what all the cool kids are doing, right?  It is February; time for love stories…
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Love is a Brick House by Liz Grear
February 13, 2013
When I was 16 or so, my dad started suffering from seizures and strokes. In the middle of the night…
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In It To Win It by Nick Ward
February 13, 2013
Dan Deacon was playing the Logan Square Auditorium but I wasn’t feelin’ the dance floor. Instead, I was hunched over…
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Plan B by Mikaela Shea
February 13, 2013
“Are you coming in with me?” Nicki asks. “Nah, I’ll wait in the car. I’ll look like an idiot in…
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That Lovely Dark-Haired Girl by Andrew Reilly
February 13, 2013
It usually happens in crowds, usually when I’m not even thinking about it, maybe a young woman outside of Water…
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NERVOUS DAD
February 13, 2013
By Ryan Buell & Artist Abby Easley
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Into the Minds of L. Ron Hubbard and Other Idiots: A Review of “Going Clear”
February 11, 2013
Whether or not these people are or were somehow crazy doesn’t concern me. What concerns me is the possibility that…
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The Invisible Continent and the Post-Racial Myth: A Review of “Of Africa”
February 7, 2013
With Soyinka’s help, when you read about the Berlin Conference of 1884, in which “Africa, a continent of so many…
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The Hole He Left Behind: A Review of “Both Flesh and Not”
February 5, 2013
His absence is one less voice to demonstrate and inspire literate thought, literate expression, and literate love when all three…
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Kurt Kennedy and the Process of “Laying Lincoln Down”
February 1, 2013
Steven Spielberg isn’t the only guy interested in exploring the multiplicity of Abraham Lincoln’s life and death.  In 2004, after President…
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The Remarkably Unremarkable Tiffanie DiDonato:  A Review of “Dwarf”
January 22, 2013
If there’s anything remarkable about DiDonato, she gives you the distinct impression that she’d rather you not feel sorry for…
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