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Lot

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Feb 20, 2018 | Pocket Finger

This is from Pocket Finger, a collection of stories by Ryan Call, with illustrations by Christy...

Wreckage

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Feb 13, 2018 | Pocket Finger

Welcome to the next installment of Pocket Finger, a collection of seven illustrated stories...

Ghost Bird

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Feb 6, 2018 | Pocket Finger

This is from Pocket Finger, a collection of stories by Ryan Call, with illustrations by Christy...

Patch

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Jan 30, 2018 | Pocket Finger

Welcome to week 3 of Pocket Finger, a collection of seven illustrated stories created by Ryan...

Lute

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Jan 23, 2018 | Pocket Finger

“Lute” is the third installment in the short story / drawing collection POCKET FINGER, by Christy Call and Ryan Call.

Three Sisters

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Jan 16, 2018 | Pocket Finger

This is the first installment of Pocket Finger, a collection of seven illustrated stories created...

The Aleatory Abyss

by Evelyn Hampton | Jun 27, 2017 | Primary Sources

An essay about chance operations, spoofing, the election, people who live in malls, Mark’s walk, and trying to teach English composition at a rural community college.

On Kierkegaard’s notion of subjectivity

by Adam Robinson | Apr 25, 2017 | Everyday Genius Vault

From the Everyday Genius vault, here’s an essay with the unremarkable sentence, “The result of existing is death.”

5 Poems by Michael Glaviano

by Real Pants | Feb 6, 2017 | Everyday Genius Vault

Michael Glaviano lives in Iowa City. Other poems of his have appeared in PANK, Whiskey Island,...

PHONE CALL

by Adam Robinson | Feb 1, 2017 | Poetry

You, you drive off to face it like a Mark Rothko, smoking one and driving like into a Mark Rothko and it’s enough, then bada-bing, voilà: a story, a culture.

Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”

by Adam Robinson | Feb 1, 2017 | Poetry

Excerpt from Langston Hughes O, let America be America again – The land that never has been...

Spell for When You’re Sad & Lonely

by Eva McKenna | Oct 24, 2016 | Spells

It’s difficult to say exactly how close you are to abandoning your human form and becoming a sandstorm, but it’s starting to feel increasingly likely. Click play on the playlist.