December 08, 2017
Sneak Peak! Take a look at the Editors' Note for Pleiades 38.1, due out on January 15th:
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Editors' Note
Recently, when discussing this issue of Pleiades, we found ourselves rehashing the ending of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Junot Díaz famously refutes the last words of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and its colonial anxiety (The horror! The horror!), when after Oscar loses his virginity to Ybón, he writes ...
December 04, 2017
Rodney Gomez
Calvarium
Do you know
that in Teotihuacan
families buried
their loved ones
under their homes?
They couldn’t bear
to unfasten
their own lightning.
Then I discovered
the elegant falsity
of believing the dead
can listen.
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This toe is a plectrum.
Two breasts calcified
by mouths
stuffed with thorn.
Mother, where
have you ...
December 02, 2017
Announcing the winner of the 2018 G.B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction:
Thomas Lakin, for his story "Other People."
Lakin will receive $1,000.00 and his story will appear in the January 2019 issue of Pleiades (39.1).
The other four finalists are:
"The Summer of Men and Mama" by Sarah Cody
"The Baton of Fame and Infamy" by Benjamin Tedoff
"The Character Profile of Rita-Mae Watkins" by Kenneth Fleming
"MP ...
November 29, 2017
Hunter Choate's story "The Amazing Uros" (Pleiades 36.1) was named a "Special Mention" in the Pushcart Prize 2017. Congratulations, Hunter! An excerpt is included below. To read the whole issue, click here.
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The Amazing Uros
by Hunter Choate
The Amazing Uros’s costume is a kaleidoscope against the gray sky. At the edge of the ten-story rooftop, he stands on one hand, balanced atop a teetering stack of ...
