North Carolina faces a long road to recovery. Our communities need support now more than ever.
To aid in relief efforts, we're dedicating our North Carolina Music Issue to those affected.
$10 from each sale from now until 10/31 goes to the North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund.
This issue includes a selection of ten short stories by Jill McCorkle, Micah Stack, Antonya Nelson, Ramona Ausubel, David Means, Jayne Anne Phillips, Chris Drangle, Christine Schutt, April Ayers Lawson, and Nick Fuller Googins. The works were selected by guest-editor Jamie Quatro, who opens the issue with an introduction to the stories called “Asking for Directions.”
Plus essays by Will Blythe, Chris Offutt, Delaney Nolan; poetry by Davis McCombs; and more.
Asking for Directions, by Jamie Quatro
Origin Stories, a story by Nick Fuller Googins
Three Friends in a Hammock, a story by April Ayers Lawson
Burst Pods, Gone-by, Tangled Aster, a story by Christine Schutt
Dithyrambalina, by Delaney Nolan
Confessions, three stories by David Means
Untold Story, a story by Jayne Anne Phillips
Eff Scott, by Harrison Scott Key
The Sinkhole, by Keith O’Brien
Common Ground, by Courtney Balestier
Like a One-Eyed Cat, by Randal O'Wain
Swinger
A story by Jill McCorkle
Making Love
A story by Antonya Nelson
A Local's Guide to Dating in Slocomb County
A story by Chris Drangle
The G.R.I.E.F.
A story by Micah Stack
Do Not Save the Ferocious, Save the Tender
a story by Ramona Ausubel
Five Encounters with Vegetation
by Will Blythe
Four Poems
by David McCombs
The Metcalfiad
Ben Metcalf's sentences of feeling
by Wyatt Mason
Cooking with Chris:
Making the Water
by Chris Offutt
Art by: Isabel M. Martinez, Leanne Surfleet, Ben Couvillon, Jeffrey Whittle, John Baldessari, Tatum Shaw, Natalie Faye, Andre Petterson, Katie Kline, Michelle Arcila, Burk Uzzle, Wendy Given, Walker Pickering, David Bowman, Annie Wentzell, Galina Kurlat, Katherine Wolkoff, Tom Martin, Kehinde Wiley, Eleanor Davis, Bradley Castellanos, Bo Bartlett, Andrew Kodama
Cover: “Dock #1” © Isabel M. Martinez (2011), from the series Quantum Blink
