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2016 Presidential Election

Bourbon and Milk: “Oh, My Dear. Where Is That Country?”

by Giuseppe Taurino | January 18, 2017

Bourbon and Milk: “Oh, My Dear. Where Is That Country?”

Bourbon and Milk is an ongoing series that dives into the perplexing spaces parenting sometimes pushes us, and explores the unexpected ways writers may grow in them. If you’re interested in joining the conversation or contributing a Bourbon and Milk post, query Giuseppe Taurino at: giuseppe [at] americanshortfiction.org.  — The world, like the Tower of Babel… [is] made out of stories, and it [is] always on the verge of collapse. That [is] proverbial.”                                         … [Read more...] about Bourbon and Milk: “Oh, My Dear. Where Is That Country?”

Filed Under: BOURBON AND MILK, NOTEBOOK Tagged With: 2016 Presidential Election, alyssa knickerbocker, bourbon and milk, Casey Fleming, Doom, Giuseppe Taurino, Greg Brown, Inauguration, Joshua Furst, Joshua Rivkin, Lacy M. Johnson, Manuel Gonzales, Miah Arnold, parenting, writing

Things American: At the Mountains of Loneliness

by Alexander Lumans | February 17, 2016

Things American: At the Mountains of Loneliness

I went to the Arctic Circle because of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. I went there to work on a novel, too, but I wouldn’t be writing a novel—wouldn’t even still be a writer—without Lovecraft. While in the Arctic, I thought about Cthulhu. I carried a protective charm a friend had stitched for me in case I encountered any Old Ones. I stared into the fissures of three-hundred-foot-tall glaciers and expected to see a tentacle lash out before slithering back into the dark, icy recesses. And every so … [Read more...] about Things American: At the Mountains of Loneliness

Filed Under: NOTEBOOK, NOTEBOOK FEATURE, THINGS AMERICAN Tagged With: 2016 Presidential Election, Adele, Alessia Cara, Alexander Lumans, Alzheimer's, apocalypse, Arctic Dreams, artists, At the Mountains of Madness, Barry Lopez, Cthulhu, Elder Things, glaciers, H.P. Lovecraft, Justin Bieber, Loneliness, Mad Max: Fury Road, Michel Houellebecq, Necronomicon, polar bears, reindeer, ruins, Russia, Ships, Shoggoths, smartphones, supernatural horror, Svalbard, the Arctic, The Dunwich Horror, The Martian, The Revenant, twenty one pilots, Wild, wilderness

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Issue 81

Guest-edited by Fernando A. Flores, featuring new stories by Yvette DeChavez, Julián Delgado Lopera, Carribean Fragoza, Alejandro Heredia, Carmen Maria Machado, Ruben Reyes Jr., and Gerardo Sámano Córdova.

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NEWS

Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

By ASF Editors

“Memories are a nuisance,” Peter wrote to one of our writers after reading his short story, “but nonetheless they seem to make us who we are, as this story confirms.” This year’s submissions told many stories burdened with memory, but just as many stared bravely into the face of hope, satirized the state of politics, speculated on the future of the world, or else built entirely new worlds to inhabit. In short, the stories written on the inside reflected the stories we wrote this year on the outside. Stories of human toil and dreams and everything in between.
 

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