Meet Clay Brown: Fiction by Christina Renee Milliner
Meet Clay Brown
by Christina Renee Milliner
“My name is Clay Brown, I’m 19, and I was born with HIV.”
Four sets of questioning eyes glared at...
Russell: Fiction by Geer Austin
Russell
by Geer Austin
When Russell Glickman died, sometime in the mid-eighties, he and I were completely out of touch. I’d seen him once or twice...
Good Humor: Fiction by John Whittier Treat
Good Humor
by John Whittier Treat
Michael remembered watching his mother Betty from a distance, as if she wasn’t his mother at all but somehow a...
Mustang Ray: Fiction by Michael E. Sawan
Mustang Ray
by Michael E. Sawan
I’m not one for beautiful days, so take it on faith that this one was a real peach. The type...
Meet Raymond Luczak, A&U’s New Fiction Editor
We are thrilled to welcome esteemed writer Raymond Luczak to our team as fiction editor. Raymond has been with the magazine from issue one—no...
Nightstand: Fiction by James Magruder
Nightstand
by James Magruder
"How soon can you be out of here?”
Asked Louis, my husband of two years. I had come home to Philadelphia from a...
The Pond: Fiction by John Whittier Treat
The Pond
by John Whittier Treat
Alan died on a hot day, but it had been hot all summer. Steve wasn’t there when the long fart...
The Inanimate Me: Fiction by Martin Shaw
The Inanimate Me
There’s only one rotten apple in this hospital, an old-school homophobic male nurse who’s pheromonic orchestration of testosterone is thwarted by the...
Hummingbird Pays a Visit to Jamie’s Grave: Nonfiction by Ephraim de...
Hummingbird Pays a Visit to Jamie’s Grave
by Ephraim de Francisco Solanas
I was certain that storing Jamie’s ashes on a bookshelf in the bedroom was...
The Love Whisperer: Fiction by Raymond Luczak
The Love Whisperer
by Raymond Luczak
People say that I’m a love whisperer. I don’t see myself quite that way at all. I’m a beautician with...
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