Author: Threepenny Editor

The nozzle of the gas pumpplunged into the flank of the carlike the curved beak of a predatory bird looks like it is drinkingor maybe I'm light-headedfrom the fumes or…

To be a person is an untenable proposition. Odd of proportion,upright,unbalanced of body, feeling, and mind. Two predators’ eyesface forward,yet seem always to be trying to look back. Unhooved, untaloned…

Preparation, she thought,as if a pianist,limbering, stretching.But fingers are tendon, not spirit;are bone and muscle and skin.Increase of reach extends reach,but not what comes then to fill it.What comes to…

A day comeswhen the mouth grows tiredof saying "I." Yet it is occupiedstill by a self which must speak.Which still desires,is curious.Which believes it also has a right. What to…

In “The Gold Bug,” the overt finding of the treasureis tossed out mid-tale like a bone to a waiting dog.His stories were not intended for the canine heart that howls…

Brenda Hillman

Harrison Hill

I sit in the restaurant and think,You Greeks, is this what you eatevery day? It’s delicious, this,what is it? Pastitsio? Delicious.It’s a culture I could loiter around,pretend to bump into…

for Brian Friel

Anna Hartford