Featured Short: 'Come See the Monkey'
"The year was 1954."
[Molly Gaudry]
Dear Wigleaf
Molly Gaudry has a postcard for us.
Featured Short: 'What the Giraffe Said'
"We stopped at a building. It did not look
like a kingdom. It looked like an abandoned cigarette factory, which in
fact it was."
[Emily Darrell]
Featured Short: 'Tommy Explained: Album One, Side One, Track Three'
"Without understanding how or why, he watches as a woman, gowned and
pale, is declared the winner." [Kevin Wilson]
Dear Wigleaf
Kevin Wilson's postcard has just arrived.
Featured Short: 'Going to Be Like Miss Marple'
"They won't let Susie visit the hospital any more, because she steals
the containers of that gel you're supposed to squirt on your hands,
because it's got alcohol, she mixes it with Diet Coke."
[Frances Gapper]
Dear Wigleaf
Frances Gapper writes us a postcard.
Featured Short: 'Pounds across America — 1990'
"The script says, WAIT NOW FOR REACTION."
[Meg Pokrass]
Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Meg Pokrass?
Featured Short: 'Experiment'
"He said that giving possessions up one at a time was the scientific way
to do it, which made sense to Julia because she had bought him a
subscription to Nature
the previous Christmas and he had been fascinated since then by the
scientific method." [Amelia Gray]
Featured Short: 'Chinese Equivalent'
"Except I thought Father completely missed the point. American
road-trips had final destinations. What was ours?
" [E.P. Chiew]
Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Elaine Chiew.
Featured Short: 'Senseless'
"Chet works the sounds of language from his throat like a weak man
dragging a heavy table." [Greg Gerke]
Featured Short: 'Miracle Cake'
"The children spent most of their time outdoors, with a mature
understanding — of which we couldn't have been prouder — that
whatever was going on was bigger than them." [Ravi Mangla]
Featured Short: 'Natalie'
"'I'm going to swipe a roll of duct tape,' she told me. 'Seal off the entrance
so even police dogs can't find me.'" [Tai Dong Huai]
Dear Wigleaf
Tai Dong Huai writes us a postcard.
Featured Short: 'Attics'
"The man grew tired of hearing birds walking back and forth across his
ceiling. One day he came into the attic swinging an axe and holding a
lantern near his throat." [Shane Jones]
Featured Short: 'Nodder'
"While
browsing a souvenir shop in the airport, the man who'd crossed an ocean
to marry encouraged his new bride, a woman he'd selected from
photographs in a catalog, to assist him..."
[Robert Aquino Dollesin]
Featured Short: 'One-Handed Prayer'
"When he lifted the shag rug, he found a hand, palm down,
flat as a rose pressed in a bible." [Christine Boyka Kluge]
Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Christine Boyka Kluge.
Featured Short: 'Potty Mouth'
"Thompson is in need of revision. He needs to know that buying shampoo
in bulk is not sexy." [Jim Ruland]
Featured Short: 'Target Practice'
"My daddy bought me a gun and then I wanted someone to beg for mercy."
[Mary Miller]
Featured Short: 'Three'
"But I didn't know what to do with him, and he didn't know what to do
with me. We grappled with our obsolescence for weeks.
"
[Andrew Roe]
Dear Wigleaf
Andrew Roe speedwrites a postcard.
Featured Short: 'Marla'
"She liked reading the poorly written stories and imagined herself as an unrelated
but interested party or the violating and violated at the same time. Doesn't everyone?" [Meghan Austin]
Featured Short: 'Let's Stay Together'
"We owed our old friends, Cicily and Bob, an invite so they came for dinner."
[Jennifer Pieroni]
Featured Short: 'Letter from a Male Fauvist'
"I've tried to be a good son, but this weekend I could not contain the crushing pressure in my
chest any longer. I thought of Cezanne who once said, Color is where the mind and universe meet."
[Jimmy Chen]
Writers' Playlist: 'Autumn'
Picks by Matt Bell, Myfanwy Collins, Thomas Cooper, Barry Graham, Tai Dong Huai,
Ravi Mangla, Mary Miller, Amanda Nazario, Ellen Parker, Matthew Savoca, and J.W. Wang.
Chez Wigleaf
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