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The Second Annual Fiction Issue

College Town
This story was written in 1982. It is an early version of a story called "Family," that was written for my first collection, titled Bad Behavior, but got cut; it is also an early version of a story called "Orchid" that was published in my second...
Mary Gaitskill
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

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BABY CORN
Jon Vermilyea
12.1.07
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
Gus Visco
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Incident At Sokolniki
The "Songs of the Eastern Slavs" cycle was supposed to be a literary hoax. In the early 19th century, Mérimée put out an entire book called Songs of the Western Slavs, which the whole world (including Pushkin, who translated it) took to be a...
Ludmila Petrushevskaya
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

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...
Yoko Ogawa
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

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...
William T. Vollmann
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

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.
Stephen Lea Sheppard
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

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
Earl Wang
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

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...
Richard Price
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Shoplifting From American Apparel
Tao Lin
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

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...
Laurie Weeks
12.1.07
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