The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
April 2008
Fiction
Genomica
by Susan DaitchFiction
A new threat arrived on Nir’s desk late in the afternoon. The envelope was buried with other interoffice notices and memos, although the thirty-nine cent Lunar Year of the Rat stamp revealed only that it had been mailed from the outside.
Floats Horse-floats or Horse-flows
by Leslie ScalapinoFiction
“Floats Horse-floats or Horse-flows” is based on the notion of “alexia,” word-blindness, but not arising as a nervous disorder, unknown words create a future.
Dionysus the Liberator
by Andrea LawlorFiction
We were known at every hipster joint and gay bar on Fifth Avenue: the Weslyan-diaspora bar, the Oberlin-diaspora bar, the ex-Lesbian Avenger bar. We just drank all the time, every night for months.
