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2002 Novel Excerpts

August 2002 Sundown Excerpt by Jordan Rosenfeld Queenie Goes to Bosnia by H. Sward July 2002 Loss Loop Excerpt by Aidan Baker Dishpig Excerpt by Tony Nesca June 2002 The Art of Falling Apart Excerpt:...

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2003 Novel Excerpts

July 2003 Hearts Don’t Break Excerpt by Jessica Wilber February 2003 Blood Tender Excerpt by Paula Anderson January 2003 Telephones by Judy Moffett

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2004 Novel Excerpts

January 2004 “Ilan the Robber” from It All Happened Somewhere, I’m Sure by Daniel DiPrinzio

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2005 Novel Excerpts

December 2005 Between The Lines by Chris Conroy

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2007 Novel Excerpts

September 2007 Excerpt from Degenerescence by James Chapman July 2007 The Space Between Brooklyn and Manhattan by Jackson Bliss June 2007 Blood Simply Wants to Be Rusty by Nick Bredie May 2007 Plastic...

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2008 Novel Excerpts

July 2008 The Pride and the Sorrow by Matt Fullerty

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2009 Novel Excerpts

November 2009 Forecast: Chapter 36 by Shya Scanlon September 2009 My Bike Shorts Are Not Yours, Or My Bulge by Joe Stracci February 2009 Another Ohio by Luke Bartolomeo January 2009 Sarah’s Memoir by...

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Forecast: Chapter 36 by Shya Scanlon

Forecast is being serialized semiweekly across 42 web sites. For a full list of participants and links to live chapters, please visit www.shyascanlon.com/forecast. Also, FORECAST found a home at...

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Excerpt from A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons

Upstairs, one of the housemates has a pinball machine. DEV finds the pinball machine, and goes to get you. He brings you upstairs to the pinball machine, and drops you off with the housemate. DEV is...

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The Insurgent by Noah Cicero

An excerpt from Noah Cicero’s novel The Insurgent I’m sitting with Chang in his bathroom. Chang is in the bathtub washing himself. He is scrubbing like he is trying to remove his skin.     We are not...

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Bliss Inc. by Ron Burch

ONE     The sun always moves.     The Greyhound bus pulled into the lot. As I quickly maneuvered into the narrow aisle with the other passengers, a rather overweight woman, squeezed into a...

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Not for All the Mayo in Western Pennsylvania by Chris Zappone

Listen to a podcast of Chris Zappone’s “Not for All the Mayo in Western Pennsylvania.” MY FATHER IS IN THE HOTEL ROOM extorting someone on the phone. We – my wife Mariane, our daughter Tessa and I –...

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Suicide by Republican by Lorrie Sprecher

PISSING IN A RIVER is a funny, musicial, psychiatric 112,467-word contemporary novel told by an American narrator with obsessive-compulsive disorder, a big mouth and voices in her head. The voices and...

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The Glassblower by Olivia Kate Cerrone

My husband tears a suitcase from the closet, rests it open against the bed. The immediate future is decided. We are quiet, all talked out. I find my car keys and leave. At the studio, we keep the...

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Crayons, Play Dough, and the Efficacy of Bear Mace by Dresden de Vera

There’s a spilled bag of stale popcorn on the apartment floor. Cray’s channel surfing makes the living room glow a chameleon hue. Remy lays out on the recliner and mouths, “Fuck. . .Fuck. . .Fuck.”...

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Grand Masters by Ellen Collett

Bridge is a game of tricks.      For a ranked grand master of contract bridge, the most difficult trick might be finding opponents on whom to hone his skills. At my level of play, to discover three...

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Kill It With Fire by Nicolle Elizabeth

People had been trying to shut down the hotel since the early Protestant work ethic showed up and told everybody how to run their businesses. Prostitutes and poker had to be moved to the basement, to...

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Off-Season by Mark DeCarteret

Listen to a reading of the prologue of Off-Season by Mark DeCarteret by Jim Rioux. An excerpt from Off-Season. Prologue March. No calendar will claim it. A mess of a month that had never had the means...

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White Blood by Bob Thurber

An excerpt from Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel.     I’m not a brainless idiot, but what does any kid know about anything? No one ever told me about the birds and the bees, so back when I was thirteen,...

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The Black Butterfly by Brandon Wells

About the novel: THE BOY WITH THE BUTTERFLY WINGS is a 101,000 word literary novel with a hip, edgy feeling — which is the way old people describe books when young people describe the world around...

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