The Fiction Issue 2009
David Simon
David Simon is responsible for one of the greatest feats of storytelling of the past century, and that’s the entire five-season run of the television series The Wire.
“The Faecalosaurus”
John Moore’s first brush with notoriety came at a tender age as a drummer for the Jesus and Mary Chain. The story he contributed to this issue is all about fecal matter, and it has made his mother extremely proud.
“Wild Geese”
Matthias Connor, aka Wolfboy, is a London-based writer who publishes fanzines that he gives to people for free. He has been doing this for more than 20 years.
Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone
In 1982, childhood friends and über-nerds Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone started selling Brits the first ever Dungeons & Dragons game from a tiny flat in west London.
Alan Moore
Alan Moore is the guy who just about anyone who has ever read a comic book agrees to be the best writer in the form’s entire history.
From “Nocturama”
Brooklynite Skaggs Bernstein (26, self-loathing, recently dumped by his girlfriend, Meghan) has returned home to Vermont to live with his mother.
“Mankind Through the Ages”
Ever since awakening to this strange and forbidding dream called the 21st century, Og had been feeling crucially displaced and lonesome.
“List of Scenes of My Childhood to be Written”
1. Scene describing how my uncle Leon planted a tree in the courtyard of our building.