Free Interstitial Fiction
The IAF Annex has been continuing apace these past couple weeks, bringing us further examples of engrossing fiction that denies categorization, instead sprawling web-like across our concepts of narrative and genre.
In "Stonefield," Mark Rich has developed an unsettling piece: a ghost story, perhaps, of time and place… or maybe a rumination on a type of American Atlas. Click on the excerpt below to read the full story:
“Days at the drafting table had provided such neat mental constructions - perfect lines and angles within which he could situate himself, to feel measured and squared… he must have slipped away from sensing the roundness and fullness of the world.”
This past Tuesday saw the release of Kelly Cogswell's "For the Love of Carrots" and "The Luxembourg Gardener," a short fiction and poem inextricably wound. Kelly's piece is innocently pornographic, in a way, an ode to sensation and misapprehension and the ridiculously feared animalism of taste and touch. It's also provocative: of thought, of laughter. Click below to see for yourself:
"Work dried up after the crash. My magazine folded, and the creditors came around demanding the office furniture and telephone and rent. They got one chair, a cancelled stamp, and a hundred and twelve copies of the second edition of Honeypot, which hadn't sold as well as the first. "And why should it?" Betsy asked. "Nobody's into poetry. Especially in the language of bees. They could be saying anything."
There are only two more weeks remaining in the Annex! Chris Kammerud's "Some Things About Love, Magic, and Hair" goes up on October 27th, and "Quiz" by Ellis O'Neal will be released on November 3rd. November 3rd, by the way, is also the release date of Interfictions 2. Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?
In "Stonefield," Mark Rich has developed an unsettling piece: a ghost story, perhaps, of time and place… or maybe a rumination on a type of American Atlas. Click on the excerpt below to read the full story:
“Days at the drafting table had provided such neat mental constructions - perfect lines and angles within which he could situate himself, to feel measured and squared… he must have slipped away from sensing the roundness and fullness of the world.”
This past Tuesday saw the release of Kelly Cogswell's "For the Love of Carrots" and "The Luxembourg Gardener," a short fiction and poem inextricably wound. Kelly's piece is innocently pornographic, in a way, an ode to sensation and misapprehension and the ridiculously feared animalism of taste and touch. It's also provocative: of thought, of laughter. Click below to see for yourself:
"Work dried up after the crash. My magazine folded, and the creditors came around demanding the office furniture and telephone and rent. They got one chair, a cancelled stamp, and a hundred and twelve copies of the second edition of Honeypot, which hadn't sold as well as the first. "And why should it?" Betsy asked. "Nobody's into poetry. Especially in the language of bees. They could be saying anything."
There are only two more weeks remaining in the Annex! Chris Kammerud's "Some Things About Love, Magic, and Hair" goes up on October 27th, and "Quiz" by Ellis O'Neal will be released on November 3rd. November 3rd, by the way, is also the release date of Interfictions 2. Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?