“There’s a… freedom allowed you in poetry. And I trust that, even if I can’t explain it. It bleeds into my fiction, in many ways.”
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A Conversation with Quan Barry
Spiral
by Ron Mohring
“He kicked free. Climbed out, coughing. Told no one. And took the lesson
into himself like a rusty nail to the foot: secret wound, slow poison.”
The Boy Is Now an Obituary
by Alyse Bensel
What killed him has been excised from the obituary. It exists in the blank space along the margins. Because it is easier to say died than overdosed.
An interview with Eric Boyd
by Kirk Sever
“I find a lot of comfort in nihilism.” Eric Boyd on David Bowie, black and white films, and the end of the world.
joint funerals
by Yoana Tosheva
so i hold a funeral for myself / girl i used to be / cliche sort of thing / there have been so many funerals / i have never been to the ones that matter / what i’m saying is my grandfather died when the first snow fell and i couldn’t go to the funeral […]
Nothing Bad Part 2: Everyone Has a Gift
by Mary Grimm
“Everyone Has a Gift” is our second installment of Mary Grimm’s novelette, Nothing Bad. Follow this link to read part 1, “The Fire:” https://maydaymagazine.com/nothing-bad-part-1-the-fire-by-mary-grimm/
Stories Refresh the American Language:
An Interview with John Freeman
by Cal Shook
I grew up reading short stories by writers from the 1950s and 1960s and loving them: Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, J.D. Salinger.
A Night Like That
by Eric Boyd
The picture was everywhere. Seemed like every time I turned my phone on it’d beep and vibrate and ring until I turned it back off. Yo did u see? Hey are you ok? Was that ur friend? To all three, yes. The cop that shared the photo was suspended with pay. He takes a photo […]
I’d Rather Not Have to Lie
by Eider Rodríguez, translated from the Spanish by Jeanette Hodgman
The man shook her hand. The woman sat down opposite, with her handbag between her feet, feet which were half-exposed in low-heeled slingbacks. The man looked over the top of his glasses at her. “Are you feeling okay?” “Yes.” “Would you like any water?” “No.” “Tea, coffee…?” “No.” “Esther Salarrue Arribalzaga.” “Yes.” “Okay […]
ASMR: You are a Gen Z Theseus
by Beau Brockett
First line from a Tweet by @ASMRSuggestions There’s a Minotaur in this Ikea, and it’s ruminating something. You’re on a Formica counter wrapped up in your golden yarns, dreaming of where you’ll be, how you’ll live, who you’ll be friends with — when you get out. Each year, fourteen graduates fall into this […]
