By Tod Goldberg

Professor William Cooperman hated teaching in the summer. The information was always the same no matter the season, of course, but for Cooperman it was more about the students. If you were taking Introduction to Hydrology in the middle of July, that meant you’d spent the entire year avoiding it, or had failed [...]

By Shelly Oria
Last night, George Washington, The First President of Our Great Nation (president, 1789-1797), fucked me three times. Now I know, I know: This is not a feminist thing to say. So before I get any hate mail from Luce Irigaray or her minions, let me rephrase: Last night I fucked George Washington, The [...]

By Stephen Amidon
The family reunion was always awful. The long drive from Maryland to Michigan, the two weeks with alcoholic aunts and uncles, the nine teenage cousins each with a birthday packed into thirty days. But this year, the reunion with Lisa might be a little different — provided she hasn’t found another boyfriend.

By Wayne Harrison
When I was seventeen and still in high school, I changed oil part-time for Ray Dugan, who promoted me to full mechanic after I graduated.  Dugan Automotive, in South Waterbury, was three basement bays that had once been a brass forge for a World War I shell casings plant.  We called it The [...]

By Jim Harrison
On the second and last night of the fair and rodeo the worst possible thing happened to Sarah short of fatal illness and death of which she was recently all too familiar.
She had been sleepwalking since the fair began and was angry at Lad during the “best-groomed horse” event because he misbehaved having [...]

By Ben Dolnick
A younger brother’s once worshipful relationship with his older brother turns tense when his hero stops playing video games, starts going out with girls, and demands his own room. When their mildly retarded cousin disappears in a snowstorm, the entire family needs to pull together. But can things ever really be the same?