“It seems alive.” These words, uttered in a tone of awe, were the ones most often said when someone saw her work. But the automatist knew that what she did was a counterfeit of life, not a creation of it.…
There are seventeen parties a year. This is number fifteen. There are two left. There are seventeen parties a year. And there are only two left. You’ve gone to fifteen parties, and no one has talked to you. Except for…
An email, from Virginia to Robert: “They’re tearing the house down next Monday.” He closed the file he was working on and called her on the phone. “Hey, Ginny.” “Hey, Bobby. What are you doing this weekend?” “This is Whitemantle…
I. When my father was about to die he told me about a ghost he had seen. II. My father was a good man in a general sense, but he was restless and knew nothing about parenting. Long stretches of…
To read Anil Menon’s story, The Jaguar’s Wife, please click on the link below in order to read it as a pdf file. The Jaguar’s Wife ANIL MENON’s short fiction has appeared in a variety of international magazines and anthologies…
Several years ago, I started writing a story about a man who was flying into Minneapolis-St. Paul and saw a car crash from above. The plane was about a thousand feet up and was descending when he saw the crash.…
Excerpted from A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade, forthcoming in April of 2014. “‘Which one of the letters does not belong in the following series? A – D – G – I – J – M…
Recorded at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on the occasion of the induction of Elvis and Jesse Presley into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, January 23rd, 1986 [Sustained applause] [Elvis Presley]: Well, the last record Jesse and I made…
the mechanism of beginning What enables the karakuri ningyo to commence operation is the auto-adjustment pin, which—as with all parts save the mainspring—must be crafted of nothing but the most appropriate wood, harvested and fashioned at the proper time of…
