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The Glassblower by Olivia Kate Cerrone

My husband tears a suitcase from the closet, rests it open against the bed. The immediate future is decided. We

PISSING IN A RIVER is a funny, musicial, psychiatric 112,467-word contemporary novel told by an American narrator with obsessive-compulsive disorder,

Listen to a podcast of Chris Zappone’s “Not for All the Mayo in Western Pennsylvania.”

MY FATHER IS IN THE

ONE The sun always moves.

The Greyhound bus pulled into the lot. As I quickly maneuvered into the narrow aisle

An excerpt from Noah Cicero’s novel The Insurgent

I’m sitting with Chang in his bathroom. Chang is in the bathtub

Upstairs, one of the housemates has a pinball machine. DEV finds the pinball machine, and goes to get you. He

Forecast is being serialized semiweekly across 42 web sites. For a full list of participants and links to live chapters,

November 2009 Forecast: Chapter 36 by Shya Scanlon

September 2009 My Bike Shorts Are Not Yours, Or My Bulge by

July 2008 The Pride and the Sorrow by Matt Fullerty

September 2007 Excerpt from Degenerescence by James Chapman

July 2007 The Space Between Brooklyn and Manhattan by Jackson Bliss

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