Today we have for you three sto­ries by Jeff Landon and a short inter­view with the author. Check the FEATURES page or go directly to Algebra.

A Pool in February

“From this angle it appears absolutely dead,” said Levon. He was look­ing at the legs, the cow stiff in the pool as if it were doing the dead man’s float. He walked around the body slowly. Steam still rose from it. It hadn’t been dead long. Read the rest of this entry »

The Pep

Saul’s tra­di­tion in the 80s, going to the new Peppermint Lounge on 45th, turned rit­ual once he met the wait­ress with the sparkly cleav­age, her oral cav­ity the most las­civ­i­ous thing he’d ever made it with, which he did every chance he got on those Friday nights, behind the stage door, in the kitchen, the walk-in freezer, and she was groov­ing on it too until one day he got stub­born and wanted to sit and con­ver­sate instead of flit­ting around doing the disco thing, so she bashed him in the mouth with her serv­ing tray, and now two decades later he still goes to den­tal rehab on 47th.

Tryout

The wait­ress ran out the back door, gal­loped two blocks of side­walk for the audi­tion, the but­ter on her blouse, the tuna on her skirt, the milk­shake in her hair giv­ing her an edge for the mon­ster movie, a will­ing­ness to scream, be revolted, and worry about her life and well-being to her fullest until she dis­cov­ered she was sixty-third in line.

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BONNIE ZOBELL has received an NEA, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, the Capricorn Novel Award, and was included on Wigleaf’s 2009 Top 50 list for very short fic­tion. Her work has been included or is forth­com­ing in The Los Angeles Review, Night Train, Storyglossia, Necessary Fiction, The Greensboro Review, JMWW, and Pank. She received an MFA from Columbia, teaches at San Diego Mesa College, and can be reached at www.bonniezobell.com.

Added today a fea­ture story by George Singleton along with an inter­view con­ducted by Meg Pokrass and Jim Whorton. See FEATURES above or go directly to Gripe Water.

We’re delighted to fea­ture a new story by Olufemi Terry, whose short story “Stickfighting Days” won the 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing. See our FEATURES page or go directly to Dark Triad.

Our next issue is sched­uled for July 2011.  This will be a spe­cial issue of fic­tion and non­fic­tion pieces 1000 words or less, edited by fic­tion writer and essay­ist Jane Armstrong, James Whorton, Jr., Frederick Barthelme & friends. Submissions open May 1, 2011 and close June 15, 2011.  Send sub­mis­sions only between those dates to blip­magazine. The issue will go online on or about July 1, 2011. See details at our FORTHCOMING page.