Inside the Nest

In the End, We Decide

By Katrina Gray

0 Comments 21 February 2012

Lately—who knows why—I’ve been a teensy bit preoccupied with air disasters. Last month I stumbled upon full episodes of Mayday, Air Crash Investigation, Air Emergency, Air Disasters, and Seconds From Disaster on YouTube, and I’m still working my way through. This, weeks before I’ll take my first flight in years to see some of you fine people at the AWP conference.

It’s not about fear; it’s fascination. Continue Reading

Short Fiction

I Am and Always Will Be

By Matt Mullins

2 Comments 21 February 2012

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

-Charles Bukowski

She was the morbidly obese, middle-aged lady living in the downstairs apartment of the rental house we shared. “My appendix almost burst,” she said by way of a greeting one day as I climbed the front porch stairs to find her hunkered down in a creaking lawn chair, the word SUGAR stretching in a sparkly silver distortion across the chest of her pink sweat suit. Continue Reading

Flash Fiction

Answers to the Name Lucky

By Jarred McGinnis

0 Comments 21 February 2012

“You ready to do this?” Carl said, sitting up in his hospital bed, as I delivered a water jug from my trolley. He had a face only seen in the portraits of civil war veterans: leathered, cross-hatched skin stretched over the skull and eyes like smudges. The unkempt calico beard that crawled down his neck was interrupted by an ancient burn scar. Continue Reading

Poetry

Coward

By Roberto Garcia

3 Comments 21 February 2012

The words are harder to dodge

than his left hook would be:

Hit me, come on pussy, hit me!

Players at the other end of the court

stop dribbling & form a ring Continue Reading

From the Attic

Eluceat Omnibus Lux

By Eugenio Volpe

12 Comments 16 February 2012

Eluceat Omnibus Lux[1]

Two o’clock in the afternoon and I’ve already masturbated twice. Luckiest man in the world or laziest? Let future literary critics decide, but the next Hugh Kenner should know that I have already produced five hundred words of fiction on this scorcher of an August day in the year of our Lord, 2010. Continue Reading

Mixed Media

Fight for Your Long Day: A Comic Adaptation, Episode 1

By Nathan Holic

7 Comments 14 February 2012

Atticus Review is proud to present the first installment of Nathan Holic’s comic series adaptation of Fight for Your Long Day, the novel by Alex Kudera. We’ll be sharing a new episode each month and hope you’ll check in to watch as the series unfolds. Continue Reading

Boo Radley’s Back Pages

February 21, 1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.

Scout's Sideshow

Ben Folds-Landed

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