Rising Bodies
Spring has arrived, and on its tails we spot daisies, rain showers, and dead bodies floating to the surface. That is, if you’re a rather unlucky girl with an eye for corpses. New fiction by Dennis Mahoney.
Stories
A collection of 161 issues
A Good Day To Be Alive
A conversation about life as a wino, the effects of war, heroin, Shiner, marriage and pornography, horseplay and jail, and the amount of muscles it takes to frown, between William and Sarah Hepola.
The New-Old Albany
Every great city is filled with a thousand untold stories. Albany, New York, however, has none. In a bout of civic service, Tobias Seamon decides to concoct a few.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
There’s a lot of land in the U.S., and it’s covered with roads. Our writer takes a cross-country tour with one hand on the wheel and the other on the camera.
Schrödinger’s Iraq
Philosophy, Iraq, mice? President Bush made some very strange comments in a press conference.
Post-Traumatic Postcards
Apologizing for the mistakes you’ve made isn’t easy, unless you limit yourself to a paragraph. Leslie Harpold keeps the sorries short and sweet, even when the regrets are long-lasting.
Life Lessons in Literature
Where were you when the family car broke down, when you first heard about oral sex, when you chose a political party? More importantly, what were you reading? Margaret Berry shares the books that made the woman.
Madalyn Murray O’Hair in Hell: The Mystery of the Antenoran Chant
In the second chapter of Madalyn’s adventures in the underworld, a mystery is uncovered on the way to Walt Whitman’s Super Bowl party. Kevin Guilfoile continues the saga of everyone’s favorite atheist sleuth.
The Summing Up
We may spend more time with our co-workers than our families, but that doesn’t mean we have to like them. Our D.C. correspondent Clay Risen starts a new job and barely gets past the front desk.
This Old Human
No country cabin is complete without a proper old man. Tobias Seamon reports from the set of “This Old Human” and gives us the scoop on how to craft the perfect curmudgeon.