“I Do Love Their Commas”

Laura Stiers is a third year English major studying abroad in London this quarter. In Dispatches from London, she blogs about books, curious Anglicisms, and literary culture in one of Europe’s most literary cities. Winter smells exactly the same here as it does in Chicago. The street outside our residence hall is hung with Christmas […]

They Do Things Differently There

Laura Stiers is a third year English major studying abroad in London this quarter. In Dispatches from London, she blogs about books, curious Anglicisms, and literary culture in one of Europe’s most literary cities. I’m doing my reading for tomorrow, a British political newspaper from 1931. Bored, I flip to the end to read the […]

Poetry: “KJ’s Feet”, by Craig Cotter

Not a callous. Each nail clear. Cuticles naturally, symmetrically edged. Scent gets me hard. Size 12. Twenty-four. Every other surface (dark black hair) perfect. Perfect scent. You drink steadily Absolut Cape Cod That monstrosity, what’s it called, she said. The Pomapdour Center? Yeah that’s it. Great Rivers cardboard sculpture. KJ your 6-foot 140 pound twink […]

I’m In The British Library (And I Feel Fine)

Laura Stiers is a third year English major studying abroad in London this quarter. In Dispatches from London, she blogs about books, curious Anglicisms, and literary culture in one of Europe’s most literary cities. Sylvia Plath has the handwriting of the girl who sat next to me in my eighth grade English class. Looking at […]

Fiction: “Written on the Wall in Chalk” by Lee Oleson

A story of our post-9/11 Great Depression. This piece is an eery and all-too-telling portrait of today’s Americana. —The Editors The laundry, off a side street, has a small sign over the front door that says Capeti & Brothers. It’s a large, two-story building with no windows. From inside comes the roar of machines.

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Author Update: Sam Mills’s “The Money Tree” now available for the Kindle

Sam Mills is a friend of Euphony we’ve been pleased to publish several times (see his most recent work here and download here). If you like his work, do check out The Money Tree, just made available for the Kindle. (It’s also available in hardcover and paperback.) The first chapter is available for a free […]

Poetry: “Things Coyote Would Like,” by Davy Knittle

a respectable turkey sandwich vanilla frosting cinnamon jawlines sheep shorn in quicksand pinewood sheds duck feathers leg flesh telephone calls from the desert garbage cactus pear ice cream calluses on the pads of your hands dance about weather systems flat feet sand around the rim of a water glass the ecology of salamanders lemongrass tea […]

I Say Tomato, You Say Tomate

Laura Stiers is a third year English major studying abroad in London this quarter. In Dispatches from London, she blogs about books, curious Anglicisms, and literary culture in one of Europe’s most literary cities. “Well, at least you don’t have to learn a new language!” everyone said to me. It felt like I was cheating, […]

The Eighth Deadly Sin is Queue-Jumping

Laura Stiers is a third year English major studying abroad in London this quarter. In Dispatches from London, she blogs about books, curious Anglicisms, and literary culture in one of Europe’s most literary cities. I can’t shake the feeling that I have “foreigner” tattooed somewhere prominent on my body. Riding the Tube (far superior in […]