Find what is better at being water than water, dig up what is better at being land than land. Pretend the ground is horizontal and build vertically to the sky.

You’re almost grown when you realize it’s an odd hour for Dad to head back to the store. That it’s almost dinnertime. That what he says about being almost out of the twenty-four ounce Cherry Coke bottles and him needing to be there when the truck comes in to deliver them doesn’t add up.

Arise fever-sweated, epiphanic. I think of Harlow’s monkey.

Chloe N. Clark tells Rachel Mans McKenny about her new story collection Collective Gravities, her craft, her editing habits, and the apocalypse.

It’s a summer party, Fourth of July. Sweat rolls down your neck. You sip lemonade. Hot dogs char on a grill.

My novel, I Keep My Worries in My Teeth begins and ends inside a camera obscura. A camera obscura is a simple thing that produces big wows.

The girl sees it first, a smudge of fur along the gravel shoulder. She stops, and Small almost walks into her, then he sees it too. Yes, it’s real.

The best way to research physical disability is to be alive for awhile. At minimum you’ll wear out your eyes or ears or joints, need glasses or hearing aids or a cane, and be warmly welcomed to the world of prosthetic devices.

I talk to Haruki Murakami at the culvert by the bridge over Stickler’s Creek. Usually.