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Joe turned over in the bed. The walls beyond the bedroom door shone with the bluish gleam from the laptop’s screen. He had grown accustomed to Nicole getting up in the middle of the night so she could IM with her older sister, stationed…

Welcome to the Emerald Isle Resort and Theme Park™. Now where are you tanned lot from? Let me guess: the States. Sure I knew it from your smiles. No one else has a smile as wide and bright as a Yank, that’s the truth. It makes us all the…

Characters in novels do not have to be "good". They just have to be alive. In Citizens by Kevin Curran, there is a character named Neil who loves his grandmother but he loves the idea of escape even more. He loves his lover Kate more now…

Mister Rat lived on Rose Avenue, in a town situated alongside a large green-coloured river. All the fish were dead in that river and children who braved the green swamp later festered with boils and nightmares. Mister Rat was not…

Now Playing: Snakedriver I wore a black dress with no knickers because I’d heard that the feedback and distortion from The Jesus and Mary Chain would make me micturate uncontrollably during their performance. My husband did the same.…

For some reason, Franz still refuses to answer any of my phone-calls, e-mails or texts. Not the type of behavior one might expect from a friend of over 30 years. But then again we are talking about Franz and I guess I was a bit out of…

A movie has come out about a conversation between two writers. The two writers are talking about a very big book by one of the writers. The conversation is lengthy, being carried on over five days. The book is called Infinite Jest. Around…

Today there is sadness, and fatigue, in the otherwise cute eyes of Flaquito. Despite the undeniable glory, it’s not always easy being the last free dog of Cafayate. This morning, he’s woken up between two cars, as usual, and gone to the…

Simon Rich was born in 1984 in New York City. The son of New York Times columnist Frank Rich, he attended Dalton High School before completing his impeccably preppy education at Harvard, where - in hindsight, almost inevitably - he was…

Mulligan pushed on his eyes with the heel of his palms and sifted, amidst the sparks and detonations, the shards from the night before. Lights. Voices. Grins. The electric rush of a DART. Svetlana Petrovna tossing pinched breadcrumbs at his…