Volume 14 Issue 12
Vice Fashion - The Second Annual Fiction Issue
Photos by Nick Zinner, Patterson Beckwith, Jonnie Craig, Patrick Tsai, Rosalie Knox and Stacey Mark
Asssscat's Temporary, One-night Only, Funny Stories
Improv comedy is the bravest, most immediate form of making up stories that there is. It's not always the funniest, or the smartest, or the best, but it's always the bravest.
Scratch - Excerpt From A Novel In Progress
I have been working on this novel for more than ten years. During those years, I have written and published other books, but this one remains unfinished. I have come to realize that this is because it is a work that comes forth from me only when...
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