The Echoes You Leave In People’s Ears: An Interview with Rebecca Makkai / Liz...
Music for Wartime, Rebecca Makkai’s first story collection, demonstrates pluck and vivacity, as well as a mature, meticulous design. Readers of her recently published second novel, The Hundred-Year...
View ArticleDaphne, Part 1 / Ashleigh Bell Pedersen
I. Apollo Longs for the Nymph Daphne His chest still smarted from the arrowhead, and flecks of gold glittered where the blood had shelled: a scab the size of a pencil eraser. A wasp hummed and hovered...
View ArticleDaphne, Part 2 / Ashleigh Bell Pedersen
Read Part 1 of “Daphne, in the Green Dappled Light” III. Daphne, the River Nymph Daphne preferred to be alone in part because she found the other river nymphs ridiculous and vain. They littered the...
View ArticleDaphne, in the Green Dappled Light / Ashleigh Bell Pedersen
I. Apollo Longs for the Nymph Daphne His chest still smarted from the arrowhead, and flecks of gold glittered where the blood had shelled: a scab the size of a pencil eraser. A wasp hummed and hovered...
View ArticleBeautiful and Wonderful and Really Terrifying: An Interview with Lidia...
Lidia Yuknavitch’s newest novel, The Small Backs of Children, explores art as a destructive force, as a means of expression, and as proof of existence. A photographer captures the image of a young girl...
View ArticleThe Material / Ashleigh Bell Pedersen
The Material is a series from Covered with Fur. It offers a glimpse of the story behind the story and encourages readers to consider writing as process and publishing as material practice. Ashleigh...
View ArticleTwo Stories / Kiik A.K.
ALL YOUR SWEET BABES Before Gila River, the Araki-Morri family lived just outside Santa Maria on a property near where West Main Street turned from a paved thoroughfare into unending strawberry fields....
View ArticleDisaster Recovery / Matt Weinkam
Two hundred feet below the dairy farms of Boyers, Pennsylvania, a former limestone mine known as Iron Mountain now stores Marriott hotel records, Great American Insurance information, Department of...
View ArticleTimor Mortis Conturbat Me / Alexander Lumans
On the back of an oversized aardwolf he arrived at the battlefield too late. Days prior at a fork in the trail, the aardwolf’s tongue had pointed right and the soldier’s compass left. The left they...
View ArticleNew School / S. Kirk Walsh
Isabelle did not want to go to the new school. First of all, she had never stepped foot in the state where it was located, and it wasn’t high on her list of places to visit in the immediate future. She...
View ArticleNew School, Part 1 / S. Kirk Walsh
Isabelle did not want to go to the new school. First of all, she had never stepped foot in the state where it was located, and it wasn’t high on her list of places to visit in the immediate future. She...
View ArticleNew School, Part 2 / S. Kirk Walsh
Read Part 1 of “New School” Shirley Miller was the first to show. She was in Isabelle’s Algebra II class and always sat in the front row and raised her hand when Mr. Hazen asked a question. Shirley was...
View ArticleComing Soon / The Editors
Check this space next week for S. Kirk Walsh’s installment of the Material, a series that offers a glimpse of the story behind the story and encourages readers to consider writing as process and...
View ArticleThe Material / S. Kirk Walsh
The Material is a series from Covered with Fur. It offers a glimpse of the story behind the story and encourages readers to consider writing as process and publishing as material practice. S. Kirk...
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