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The First Annual Fiction Issue

Books On A Budget

Do you like spending shitloads of money on stuff you don't really need? I mean who are you, really, if you can't drop a couple thou here and there on what-ever-the-fuck? What's the point of even drawing another breath if you can't live a little?
VICE Staff
12.1.06
The First Annual Fiction Issue

"gjennom Nattens Identitet" ("through The Identity Of The Nighttime")

This is an excerpt from the book Nasjonalsatanisten (The National Satanist by Erlend Erichsen, translated for Vice. Erichsen is from Bergen and has played drums for a bunch
Erlend Erichsen
12.1.06
The First Annual Fiction Issue

Out By Holy Land

I hate Stew but he sells weed. So one Saturday, me, Mike, and Mike’s brother Ross drive Stew’s fuck-friend Boudreau out to Stew’s house to cop. Boudreau sits up front which is fine with me except that I have to look at
Risa Mickenberg
12.1.06
The First Annual Fiction Issue

From Velvet

I’m half dead from grief because I turned into trash. There was the day I hit my dog. I changed sides. I went to the killer side even though I was fraught with fear. I was garbage inside. I had become trash. What could I do if I couldn’t touch her...
Andrea Dworkin
12.1.06
The First Annual Fiction Issue

Coming Of Age

See, he's not my proper son, not by blood, like, but I adter take him on as family when I married his mother, didn't I? Ad no choice in the matter. I mean yeh can tell he's not one of mine just by looking at him; more meat on a jockey's whip. A strong...
Niall Griffiths
12.1.06
The First Annual Fiction Issue

Edge Of Seventeen

You and Katherine are drunk on wine coolers and you've forgotten all about stabbing Ziggy with the Ginsu knife and running for your lives. The three of you cozy down in the dark, Ziggy in the middle, beneath several layers of blankets and unzipped...
Blaise Kearsley
12.1.06
The First Annual Fiction Issue

Electric Independence

In Zanzibar for a few days during September, I wandered with my sister through the narrow streets of the East African island's ancient capital, Stone Town, one sweltering afternoon. We'd been to the market, where guys nodded off on butcher's blocks...
Piers Martin
12.1.06
The First Annual Fiction Issue

Vice Mail

LOVE & HATE I just saw your Poverty Issue. I lived in Nottingham for three years, and I saw a few nasty things, and heard
VICE Staff
12.1.06
The First Annual Fiction Issue

Tapestry

Rose was number one. Fairly light hair on a warm young mound. Later I knew this poet from Boston, and he lived in a loft in Little Italy with a girl who made art. Their life seemed perfect. And she was number two-I got her. She was like a welder or...
Eileen Myles
12.1.06
The First Annual Fiction Issue

Spiritual Gold

After listening to their album Organic Universe and some long and careful consideration, we came to the conclusion that nothing could prepare you well enough for The New Alchemy. Try imagining Jason Anderson and Jason Spaceman waking up from
Arien Rasmijn
12.1.06
The First Annual Fiction Issue

A Cartoon By Flannery O'connor

Flannery O'Connor's short stories are really funny, but no one ever talks about that. It might be because the jokes aren't haw-haw jokes, or it might be because the humor is so dark that a lot of people don't have the taste for it. She has this way of...
Flannery O'connor
12.1.06
The First Annual Fiction Issue

Reading With Polythene Sheets

These New Puritans are four gaunt, well-spoken 19-year-olds who've been clumped into the imaginary "Southend Scene" (one club night is not a scene) with bands like The Horrors and Wretched Replica (who have now split up) but sound nothing like either
John Mcdonnell, Sanna Charles
12.1.06
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