Andrew Blossom

A collection of thirty-four short stories.

The Evil One

I've Got a Message for You and You're Not Going to Like It

Greg Koehler

Issue Eight. Eight years in the making. Featuring new literary work from X.C. Atkins, Tom Batten, Jung Hae Chae, Clay McLeod Chapman, Noah Falck, Katy Resch George, Jessica Laser, Amira Pierce, Christine Stroud, Eddie Vega, Nate Waggoner and many, many more. Plus, new artwork from George Allen, James Callahan, Jackie Clark, Santa Sergio De Haven, Jen Dunlap, Tina Gibbard, sTo Len, Ryan McLennan, Amanda Case Millis, Julianne Nash, Em White and many more. Cover artwork by Nick Kuszyk.

Only a Witch Cat Can Close a Door

Makeout Creek Eight

Allison Titus

Lauren Maas

Joshua Morison

Joshua Poteat

April Sopkin

The pilot episode of TWIN PEAKS first aired on April 8, 1990. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in April 2015, we asked contributors to create the homage that felt appropriate to them. The results, collected here, include work inspired by the experience of watching TWIN PEAKS, by the world portrayed within the show, by the enduring mythology of the show-and by the wide array of feelings TWIN PEAKS causes its viewers to experience. In other words, not all of the pieces here are directly about TWIN PEAKS. If it felt resonant to the artist or writer, it worked for us. Please enjoy. We'll see you in the trees.

The Lonesome Foghorn Blows

Makeout Creek Seven

Tom De Haven

Brian Castleberry

These days, Richmond is a city of winter balls and garden parties on soft summer evenings, a city of private clubs where white-haired old gentlemen, with their martinis or mint juleps in hand, still genuflect in front of portraits of Robert E. Lee. But it's also a city of brutal crime scenes and drug corners. It's a city of world-class ad agencies and law firms, a city of the FFV (First Families of Virginia) and a city of immigrants - from India, Vietnam and Africa to Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.

Richmond Noir

The River City emerges as a hot spot for unseemly noir in this anthology with a foreword by New York Times–bestselling author Tom Robbins. A rich literary tradition sets the stage for this talented group of authors who take their inspiration from Virginia’s capital city. Edgar Allan Poe has left his mark on the atmospheric town, giving its residents a taste for walking on the dark side. It’s no wonder that three local writers took it upon themselves to curate this moody and menacing collection, featuring stories by Dean King, Laura Browder, Howard Owen, Yazmina Beverly, Tom De Haven, X.C. Atkins, Meagan J. Saunders, Anne Thomas Soffee, Clint McCown, Conrad Ashley Persons, Clay McLeod Chapman, Pir Rothenberg, David L. Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis Danvers. “[Fifteen] gritty and ominous tales . . . The writing of Poe—who grew up and forged a literary reputation in Richmond, and is usually credited with inventing the detective story—may have set the stage for the town’s kiss-me-deadly tradition.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch

Andrew Blossom

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