Sublime

Erin's

the first story that, as he later put it, “rang his cherries” was Donald Barthelme’s “The Balloon.”

Flannery

“When I’ve thought about him dying—which admittedly isn’t that much—I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we’re grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don