The weight of ambivalence is greater than any final oath.
But what, exactly, is man in the middle between?
Connections that arise not out of the expression of meaning, but from the feeling of not quite being able to fully communicate anything.
The story’s structure, mirroring the novel’s title, presents two narratives leaning toward each other with an inevitable intersection.
The Miniature Wife – Manuel Gonzales
How to make this strange, cold, cluttered world into something human.
Care of Wooden Floors – Will Wiles
“A room is a manifestation of a state of mind . . . We make our rooms, and then our rooms make us.”
Promising Young Women – Suzanne Scanlon
Scanlon implicates the reader in the same system that has produced these “promising young women,” “career patients” seen by their doctors as projects, fodder for academic papers, or books.
Safe as Houses – Marie-Helene Bertino
The stories in SAFE AS HOUSES read as a combination of rough sandpaper and its smooth result.
The Cardboard House – Martín Adán
In a new edition, THE CARDBOARD HOUSE loses the raw feel of a manifesto.
In Between Days – Andrew Porter
Love that was supposed to last forever doesn’t end, exactly; rather it becomes transmuted into nostalgia for what used to be but is no longer livable.