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Have You Read My Manuscript? by Thomas Washington

After a limp attempt at resuscitating an essay in progress—the desktop has oodles of them, my own intergalactic debris orbiting the stars, perpetually out of reach—I beat the path to the refrigerator and then the television ...more

My Life of Crime by Rory Laverty

At first we stole only from the stores in Midtown. In the fall of 1984, those included a co-op grocery, a pharmacy, a 7-Eleven and a two-story department store called Bergman's. The strip was a few blocks from where I lived ...more

Relief: Afghanistan, 2001 by J. Malcolm Garcia

Christmas Eve. I stop to buy a pound of rice and a half gallon of cooking oil on Flower Street, a commercial district in downtown Kabul for an impoverished family I'd seen just days before. Even though I am halfway around the world covering a war, I want to continue my seasonal habit of giving to poor people during the holidays •

Southern Culture on the Skids by Ed Tarkington

1. I can't stand a naked lightbulb.
Presumably, the place was supposed to look beat. Arrogantly shabby: that's the motto in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Southern Culture was appropriately archetypal. I had been there a few times before I ended up behind the bar—always at night, when the dim lighting •