Fiction | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

TELLING LIES AND CALLING IT LITERATURE SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

Fiction | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

TELLING LIES AND CALLING IT LITERATURE SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

Tarpaulin Sky Online Literary Journal Issue #14 / Spring-Summer 2008

Edited by Bhanu Kapil. Featuring work by Brenda Iijima, Dodie Bellamy, Laura Mullen, Bill Luoma, Melissa Buzzeo, Chris Abani, Michelle Naka Pierce, Christine Wertheim, Renee Gladman, Amy Catanzano, Amber DiPietra, Dolores Dorantes, Alan Gilbert, Deborah Richards, Lisa Birman, Isaac Currie, Rohini Kapil, Caroline Bergvall, and Michelle Naka Pierce.

Tarpaulin Sky Issue #13 Print Issue #1 / Fall 2007

Featuring work by Rosa Alcalá, Samuel Amadon, Lucy Anderton, Claire Becker, Cara Benson, Ilya Bernstein, Joseph Bradshaw, Popahna Brandes, Daniel Brenner, Lily Brown, Julie Carr, Laura Carter, Jon Christensen, Heather Christle, John Cotter & Shafer Hall, Patrick Culliton, John Deming, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Danielle Dutton, Sandy Florian, Hillary Gravendyk, Annie Guthrie, Brent Hendricks, Anna Maria Hong, John Hyland, Lucy Ives, Karla Kelsey, Steve Langan, Barbara Maloutas, Sarah Mangold, Justin Marks, Teresa K. Miller, Jefferson Navicky, Bryson Newhart, Nadia Nurhussein, Thomas O'Connell, Caryl Pagel, Nate Pritts, Elizabeth Robinson, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Spencer Selby, Brandon Shimoda, Lytton Smith, Sampson Starkweather, Mathias Svalina, Jen Tynes, Prabhakar Vasan, Della Watson, Theodore Worozbyt, Bethany Wright, and Kristen Yawitz.

Tarpaulin Sky Online Literary Journal Issue #11 / Fall-Winter 2006-07

Edited by Selah Saterstrom. Featuring Matthea Harvey, Bin Ramke, Eleni Sikelianos, Bushwick Farms, Jindrich Štyrský, Clear Cut Press, Robert Glück, Danielle Dutton, Lisa Robertson, Laird Hunt, Elizabeth Rollins, Joan Fiset, Tama Baldwin & Noah Saterstrom, Rebecca Brown, Chris Kraus, Brian Kiteley, Peter Markus, Leisure Projects, and Cynthia Ona Innis.

Tarpaulin Sky Online Literary Journal Issue #10 / Spring-Summer 2006

Featuring work by Benjamin Buchholz, Justin Lacour, Michael Rerick, Matt Hart, Ethan Paquin, Jonah Winter, Carolyn Guinzio, James Wagner, Geoffrey Detrani, Elena Rivera, Shira Dentz, Kristi Maxwell, Coralie Reed, Ramsey Scott, Robyn Art, Clay Matthews, Mark Cunningham, Julie Doxsee, Max Winter, Kari Edwards, & a feature on work by CUNY undergrads Jon Christensen, Caroline Ashby, Raina Washington, Erinn Moran, Marianne Choi, and Sarah Roberts.

Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal Issue #9 / Fall-Winter 2005-06

Featuring work by Jesus Aguado, Electa Arenal, Julie Carr, Jan Clausen, Josh Corey, Michael Costello, Barbara DeCesare, Joan Fiset, Sandy Florian, Beatrix Gates, Ada Limon, Paul McCormick, Joyelle McSweeney, Amanda Nadelberg, Daniel Nester, Mark O’Neil, Francis Raven, Andrew Roberts, Laura Sims, Cody Walker, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and Max Winter.

Fiction by Ben Segal

So much is made of Simone Weil having starved herself to death. The Nazis, you know. I could starve myself to death for a thousand good reasons and none of them would be good reasons after all.

Fiction by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

I thought about all the baby had experienced, and concluded that her name should be Amulet baby, since she was strong and mysteriously unharmed by the elements of hunger and sickness. I sang her name a few times: “Amulet baby,” I said, and in my mind retired the name of limp baby, and she smiled at me so that I knew she liked her name.

Fiction by Paul Cunningham: an excerpt from The Middlecirclehole

"All that rain. All that rain that gets down in the soilmeat under the mulch and sometimes it all slides down the hill that faces the backporch. Everything collects at the bottom of the backporch stairs. Night crawlers ooze out too a lot of the time. Coil-nerves. Dead rabbit parts—couple times. Raccoon parts. Never know what to expect oozing out of the ground with a mouth froze open or lifeless eyes making a seize on me. I tell the other kids at school about this stuff and they say I have satanic addictions but I just like to describe things as they happen because I like to describe."

j/j hastain: from Letters to the Divergents, a Cryptozoologic for Xems

The host is able to use you like a normal tongue would be used after the transition has been made. This transition is really a translation, isn’t it? A body-torque. I am so stimulated by this notion of the foster tongue. The surrogate that continues on with you, inside of you, once having made its place, its residence, within. The louse is a cyborg success that while taking away from the host fish, also adds to it. To act in accordance with, to embody visceral tandems.

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