Featuring new stories by Lydia Conklin, Darby Jardeleza, Matthew Neill Null, Roger Reeves, Eric Schlich, Caroline Schmidt, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, and Emma Törzs. Lydia Conklin, "Belong to the Night" A hangover was already running her down, her lungs full of fiberglass. En route to the subway, a rat skittered from under a bulkhead door down the sticky, empty street and into the neon light of a taco sign. The rat carried a mouse in its teeth. The mouse’s eyes were points of light straining … [Read more...] about Issue 75
Matthew Neill Null
Jaimy Gordon Interviews Matthew Neill Null
"The Slow Lean of Time," Matthew Neill Null's sweeping account of the hazardous lives of 19th Century drovers who steered giant logs down West Virginia's rivers, contains what might be the most genuinely shocking moment of any short story I've read this year. This despite the fact that Null, whose story we were pleased to publish in Issue 57 of American Short Fiction, describes the world his characters inhabit from such a high vantage point that we see them as smallish players moving across an … [Read more...] about Jaimy Gordon Interviews Matthew Neill Null