6.10 / Crime Issue
The Crime Issue: From the Special Issue Editor
In these stories, you’ll find no midnight epiphanies in a parking lot about a relationship gone sour. Instead, you’ll encounter revenge, rape, murder gone wrong, power-positioning between rival gangs, sorry-ass selfish acts committed without regard for others and occasionally, like a flower finding its color in a parched landscape, compassion [...]
An Excerpt from Eat Your Children
PART ONE: Appetizer
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally [...]
Deviances
Bound and whimpering, the girl sat on a dirt floor pressed into the corner of the garage. Bruises fudged her hide while scraped knees and elbows jutted from her ripped blue and white T-shirt and boy-cut panties the wrong shade of brown.
On the opposite side of the garage, Nostalgia [...]
For the Man After Me
The chains on the Ranger quiet and go silent altogether when he pulls up behind the wreck. There is a long curling drag of snow ahead like the beginning of a figure-eight or from far above maybe the top of a cursive letter, e or a, except it ends with [...]
Excerpt from The Baddest Ass
1.
West didn’t join the Aryans to protect himself from the Blacks. Shit, he grew up in Detroit–black food, black music, black friends. He never had a problem with the Blacks. He joined the Aryans to protect himself from the Whites. No fence sitting motherfuckers up in here. Max security. You [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to Dog Sitting
DAY #3
He just won’t shut up.
I’ve been pistol-whipping the living shit out of him for the past ten minutes and he still won’t stop.
“Come on, Tom! Why don’t you give a guy a break and just let me fuck her a little? I’d probably only last a coupla seconds-â€
I don’t [...]
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Coq au Vin
1 onion
2 carrots
2 stalks celery
6 whole peppercorns
2 cloves garlic, pureed
1 sprig parsley
1 bay leaf
¼ tsp thyme
3 bottles Burgundy (two inexpensive, one not)
2 Tbsp white arsenic (from the hardware store)
2 Tbsp sugar
1 whole chicken
Salt and pepper
2 Tbsp olive oil
4 Tbsp butter, divided
1 Tbsp flour
1 ripe red tomato
¼ lb lardons [...]
How To Fire A Bullet
Rocket the fastball,
Lead the love letter,
Drive band the low friction.
Pump action the plated
Soft point, the pointed
Soft point. Lubricate the
Wived malediction.
Boat tail the form drag.
Spray the subject.
Penetrate the target.
An Excerpt from Hit Monkey
I took the Barrett sub-machine gun to the garage, placed it on the truck seat, then covered the body with a sheet of warped plywood and scraps of lumber. I fastened magnetic signs to the doors that said “U-Kall and I-Hall” and drove away from my home, my former haven [...]