I needed to make a rack for the back of my old green truck, so I bought these 2 X 12 boards, treated cedar, from the lumber yard. I was from Chicago, new to Arkansas, but I was learning my way around. We had been in those backwoods for a year, me and Clare and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Beth Wellington at the Guardian. CNN correspondent Soledad O'Brien's recent piece on mountaintop removal (MTR) in the Appalachian mountains has the troubling title, "Steady job or healthy environment: what [sic] would you choose?" How about we choose both? In any case, MTR does not, despite industry claims, deliver employment to offset its environmental damage. It's simply […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Blues For Billy C I'm used to being fucked but it's not what you think; flip me a couple bucks? I won't trip, I don't drink. A shower of violet misty steam feels good. Costs four bucks at Pilot truckstop banya cedarwood. It's cool in the morning you don't look like a saver. I be wan, at John's Landing, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Verless Doran lives and writes in the hills of East Tennessee. His works have appeared in The Smoking Poet, Heroin Love Songs, Lit Up Magazine, The Suisun Valley Review, Prick of the Spindle Press, Dogzplot Literary Journal, and Riverbabble Journal. His first collection of short stories, Saints and Angels, is available now online and in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1– If you were sitting here with me and I closed my eyes and asked you what color they are, you wouldn't know. You don't see me. The other boy who loves me, I don't love him. I don't love him back at all, because I'm stuck loving you, but he looks at me like […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mather Schneider is a 40-year-old cab driver from Tucson, Arizona. He is happily married to a sexy Mexican woman. His poetry and prose have appeared in the small press since 1993. He has one full-length book out by Interior Noise Press called Drought Resistant Strain and another full-length coming in the spring of 2011 from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
He didn't flinch when the metal roof popped on the far side of the trailer. Just kept looking outside, eyes level, gaze steady. Fingertips resting lightly on the windowsill. Cops has been watching Lester from the pine forest out back for days. Maybe weeks. It was hard to remember how long. Seemed like a century […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sandcherries and chokecherries are in full blossom in their ordered rows along the boundaries of the set-aside and in irregular swathes branching into the grass, erect blossoms at full attention to the sun and the bees at them sluggish with pollen. They have brought shovels and hoes and are at work clearing the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, the site is up now, and I plan on new content–interviews, fiction, essays–here in the next few days. One of the ways I used my free time in the last month or so is to read. I will have much more to say on this book. It's a good one, all around, but I have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator (magazine) Issue 0
GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator (magazine) Issue 1
