map Macro-Fiction Archives

Summer Barbecue

Issue No. 167 ~ April, 2011

But then something will happen. A few words that were supposed to mean something small and specific will become a lot of words about something important, amorphous and large.

Two Ladies Under The Influence

Issue No. 167 ~ April, 2011

She takes a couple of healthy gulps. Without such completely feminine hands, her beer chugging might be considered downright unladylike.

The Face on the Kitchen Floor

Issue No. 167 ~ April, 2011

A large blob of grayish-green was visible therein, and its presence I acknowledged with a muttered 'for Christ's sake' because to me it suggested a leaking fridge and a whole lot of hassle.

Frank O’Hara

Issue No. 166 ~ March, 2011

He went home to Nebraska and found all the letters he had written waiting for him, returned to his parents' house, unopened. Betty was nowhere.

Altered Beast

Issue No. 166 ~ March, 2011

There’s a guy living in my storage room. I noticed it about a month ago, when I went into the basement of my apartment building to drop off a box full of old Evil Dead posters I’d collected at college poster sales.

Salsa

Issue No. 165 ~ February, 2011

She concentrated-posture, frame, steps, smile-but by the time the song ended she couldn't help smiling, beaming really, and her partner let her go with a "gracias," and a slight bow.

We Are All Together in the End

Issue No. 165 ~ February, 2011

Thunderheads gathered over the green mountains every afternoon into a sure rainstorm, and yet they moved off to other valleys before the rain fell. The truth about life is

The Way of It

Issue No. 164 ~ January, 2011

For fifteen years, I have trained to kill the old man. I am good with a knife and can ooze my way through a dark room, but there is a ritual to uphold, the ritual the old man learned from his teacher.

Interstate Nocturne

Issue No. 163 ~ December, 2010

I’m smashing my own hole through the star-freckled night, nothing around to be sucked into my trail except a few small animals that trickle out of the humps of forest the highway splits.

One Dentist, Many Frogs

Issue No. 163 ~ December, 2010

The frogs, the unemployed men sitting at tables in cafes and restaurants were sometimes compelled by night or rain or no money in the pocket to disappear.