The Second Annual Fiction Issue
The Satanic Model Of Psychosexual Development
My initial outline for this story was framed around the five phases of Freud's model of psychosexual development, hence the title. I wanted a story about a child-rearing program designed to create maladjusted sexual deviants. When I was finished I had
The Arm
During the war, a colonel received a letter from his wife. She missed him very much, it said, and would he please come visit because she's worried she will die without having seen him. The colonel immediately applied for leave, and as it happened that...
This Is Who Is In The Second Annual Fiction Issue Of vice Magazine
JESSE ARMSTRONGHe has written for the critically savaged UK adaptation of the sitcom That 70s Show and the critically not-savaged, hilarious, award-winning British comedy Peep Show. He also co-wrote the savagely funny BBC...
Poppy Z. Brite Is The King/queen Of New Orleans
Poppy Z. Brite’s early novels are full of vampires, angsty teenagers, and other beautiful, tortured creatures, often sexually ambiguous and with varying shades of flaxen, crimson, or raven hair, tangled and blowing in the hot wind. Her first two novels...
Dennis Cooper On Zine Days (they Were Good) And Transgressive Blogs (there Is Such A Thing)
If you rated magazines on a scale of 100 for megasellers to 0 for practically shunned, poetry journals would barely register in the high minuses. Who exactly is the itsy
My Massive Feelings (fragments From The Diary Of A Young Girl)
Like everything else I write, this piece started out as a one-page fragment consigned for several years to the drawer of Shame and Self-Loathing. When I was living in San Diego a couple of years ago, teaching and learning to surf, I pulled it out and...
Dolgier
This novel is set on the Lower East Side. I've been obsessed with the neighborhood my whole life, and this latest incarnation of it as a sort of La Bohème playground is extremely ironic to me. The kids who are down there now-my kids-know it like...
Art Of The Query
Marshall:Earl here. Got your letter of rejection, no hard feelings, friend. Thanks to your speedy response and uncommon alacrity, my idea is now free to be pitched to other
NBA2K8
Whether as a function of human nature or a product of being raised in a capitalist society, people like to own the newest, biggest, shiniest things.
Absinthe
This story is based on several drinking sessions that I had the joyous privilege of experiencing in Petersburg a couple of years ago as a guest of a writers' workshop. I will never forget the effects of absinthe and hope that I have a chance to sample...
Growing Chinese Greens
"Growing Chinese Greens" grew out of an actual experience: I discovered a note with those words written on my calendar, but I couldn't remember what they meant or how they came to be there. I simply wanted to describe the way the uncanny can slip into...