The Coming Envelope: Issue 5, Summer 2012

by M. Kitchell, Diane Williams, Caroline Picard

Five writers have contributed work to Issue 5: Diane Williams, who gives us the unsynthesized frenzy of raw reality, and who has taken flash fiction to high artistry through daringly compressed narratives; Michael Nardone, who through an assemblage of snippets from pulp novels has erected a peepshow onto terrifying, ridiculous and banal characters whose crude longings exude from each word that comprises them; Caroline Picard, who constructs a mysterious and ecstatic myth of artist Joseph Beuys even while she dismantles it; M. Kitchell, who drops us into an ambiguous place of commercialized consciousness and mediated desire; and Mikhail Iossel, whose two single-sentence stories assemble being as a clamour of competing forces, and whose style is among the most forcefully brilliant of any writer working in our country.

Edited by Malcolm Sutton.

40 pages.

40 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012