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JUNE 2011

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Fiction

Jesus’ Dog

by M.G. Stephens

Fiction

He was the very dog that Jesus raised and trained, walked and fed, whose poo he scooped up with his pooper-scooper, whose teeth he cleaned with rawhide bones and real bones from the butcher, bones that made Jesus’ dog fierce and loyal, obedient and attentive, man and god’s best friend.

FÉDER or the Gilded Husband

by Stendhal, translated from the French by Brian Evenson

Fiction

This expenditure, which would have seemed so stupid to Boissaux a month after his arrival in Paris, seemed decisive to Féder, who for more than a fortnight had watched and doubted.

The Blind Dates

by Susan Bernofsky

Fiction

One of them swept me off my feet and then tormented me with angry outbursts often set off by trifles, like if I changed the setting on my car’s heater while driving him somewhere.

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Character and Fitness: Chapter 11

by Jason Flores-Williams

Fiction

Character and Fitness is a semi-autobiographical novel about an unemployed social justice lawyer and his nurse girlfriend living in a shitty apartment complex behind a strip mall in suburban Philadelphia, the birthplace of our democracy.

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Character and Fitness: Chapter 12

by Jason Flores-Williams

Fiction

Character and Fitness is a semi-autobiographical novel about an unemployed social justice lawyer and his nurse girlfriend living in a shitty apartment complex behind a strip mall in suburban Philadelphia, the birthplace of our democracy.

Tragic Strip

by T. Motley

Fiction

Fiction Krishna, episode 5, in which Fiction Krishna address YOU, the reader.

 

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