
Boone and I are crunching ice beneath our boots, walking a pitbull named Dorothy. The dog isn’t mine, or Boone’s either. She belongs to a guy I just met, a guy with porno pin-ups in his kitchen, glossy pretzels of hairless flesh thumbtacked to the blistered wallpaper. A guy who said he’d trade Boone a…

When the Royal Air Force incinerated the city, some Dresdeners thought they’d escape the flames by jumping in the fountain. They were boiled alive.

I wasn’t even a good cancer patient. I skipped out on taking my medicine, a lot. You’d think under the dire circumstances of life or death, I’d remember to take my medicine, but the truth is, I often forgot.

Matthew Salesses tells a couple bad/dad jokes, and reads from his novel, The Hundred-Year Flood.

2-for-1 happy hour, or, Kristen Arnett reads two short stories about going to bars.