E10
by Carey Dean Potash
Issue No. 12 ~ May, 1998
Vending machines and nepotism in the workplace.
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Macro-Fiction Archives
Movado
by Ed Hamilton
Issue No. 12 ~ May, 1998
Want to buy a watch?
The Road Home
by Frank Scozzari
Issue No. 11 ~ April, 1998
A reluctant soldier keeps the final promise made to his fallen comrade.
Fortune Cookies
by Michael Schwartz
Issue No. 11 ~ April, 1998
Life in the death-throes of the 20th Century; cold Szechwan, stale beer, and meaningless information streaming over the airwaves.
Out of the Flats
by Nick Burton
Issue No. 10 ~ January, 1998
The sky over Crystal City was the color of blue flame; the glass skyline reflected shimmering silvers and golds, achieving an aesthetic ugliness that comes from a kind of sterile perfection. It was if the entire city was hiding behind one way mirrors, and if …
The Modern Debutante
by Hamish Gilbertson
Issue No. 10 ~ January, 1998
“The crowd is untruth.” — Soren Kierkegaard The young man felt the burden of his epiphany. People needed telling. The problem was getting them to listen. Rush, rush, rush everywhere — so unsettling. People busy ‘getting ahead,’ and finding that ahead, by its very …
Tourists & Residents
by Christine Allen
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
She is on a towel. She is on a beach. There are towels on all sides. Candy wrappers and tissue stick to the towels. The water is warm and full of people. The waves are not high. She watches her friend. He is at the …
The Lure
by Steven Frank
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
An early February snowstorm raged tonelessly outside the office of Carl Drubner, patent attorney, swirling white hills and humps across the stretch of roof outside his window. The snow had begun as long ago as Drubner could remember, which was that morning when he woke …
Caprice
by Afshin Rattansi
Issue No. 9 ~ October, 1997
Leocadia and little Rosario are outside watching the woodcutter chip away at a diseased trunk. I’m alone to peer at my murals while I reflect on my imminent departure from Quinta del Sorda. I’m not disheartened by my having to pack up and move out. …
Posers
by Nick Burton
Issue No. 7 ~ April, 1997
We were all glitter and flash, still trying to squeeze some cultural juice out of what we thought was a legacy that had been handed to us from that decade just a few years before, not quite heavy metal kids, but more like California mods, …
