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NEW FICTION: NEXT YEAR’S SHOW

Written by MARY SWITALSKI Posted October 5, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

The opening band sounds like Dick Dale on downers. Dual vocalists split the front of the stage. The hipster, stage-left, plays rhythm, mic on distortion.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction Tagged With: fiction, live music, Mary Switalski, Next Year's Show, Slush Pile Magazine

NEW FICTION: EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN

Written by BEN HINSHAW Posted August 16, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

Her commitment had been total until, during one of four weekly after-class sessions, she lost concentration when her coach’s interest diverted visibly to a younger girl stretching on a nearby mat.

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FICTION: MY HEART IS A CHEAP FUCK

Written by DIG STAFF Posted May 8, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

He was just getting seriously into weight training and his body was bulging in unexpected places we’d discover together.

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NEW LOCAL FICTION: THE WEBSITE

Written by CADY VISHNIAC Posted March 20, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

YOUR FIRST MESSAGE is from some kid who only just gained the right to drink in bars this past November, and what he writes to you is I like older women.

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Written by DIG STAFF Posted February 13, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

Submit your fiction to DigBoston + Slush Pile Magazine here.

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FICTION: SAINT VALENTINA

Written by MARION BRIGHT Posted February 13, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

YOU WERE BORN the day the IRA kidnapped Shergar. The radio reported it, and the t.v. did, too. The midwife suspected that the Russians had taken him.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction Tagged With: Dig Fiction, fiction, Holiday Fiction, Marion Bright, Saint Valentina, Slush Pile Magazine

SPECIAL HOLIDAY FICTION: TWO SMALL DOGS

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 8, 2014 Filed Under: Fiction

ONE DECEMBER SUNDAY, just two weeks before Christmas, Rose and Mark came home to discover Gretl alone in the yard, surrounded by trails of sticky black hair and a tangle of grayish, gnawed up bones. Hans’s rat-like skull, the eyes picked clean, poked out from under a deck chair on the far side of ...  read more

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Authors, Boston fiction, christmas fiction, fiction, Holiday Fiction, meredith K. gray, Slush Pile Magazine

ODD FALL FICTION: THE CAROLINES

Written by TAK TOYOSHIMA Posted October 30, 2014 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

“Tough life out here, huh, boy?” She stroked his ears, his thoughts moving up through her hands. He was old, and it hurt to swallow. He had run away from a man who came home drunk some nights and kicked him. It made her throat tighten and her eyes wet. “That’s bad. I’m really sorry.” Some people fed him, but mostly he ate garbage, and he hurt every night when it got cold. He hurt all the time. He wanted peace, and he looked right into her face to say it.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction Tagged With: Authors, Boston fiction, college fiction, Douglas Hill, fiction, Slush Pile Magazine, The Craft

FICTION: HOPE OF REBOOT

Written by DIG STAFF Posted October 9, 2014 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

 

BY HAYES MOORE

 

MY SUPER-HUSBAND just sent me an interesting article. I call Paul my Super-Husband because he is both my supervisor and my husband. And because it is poetic.

 

The email said:

juliet—article below mentions a kid from your high school class. ...  read more

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