Leave Luck to Heaven
by Brian Oliu
A heart-wrenching collection of lyric essays, each themed around a classic Nintendo game.
Praise for Leave Luck to Heaven :
"In Oliu's gorgeous renderings, the games we played become dirges and love stories, set amidst the remains of the first age of the video game generation, investigating the hoped-for lives we once pursued inside and outside the machines."
- Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt
between the Lake and the Woods
"The collection continues on in this way: hauntingly beautiful mash-ups of memories and pixels. The reader is confronted with monsters and ninjas, mothers and fathers. The unreality of gaming is always there, but the unreality of life is center stage, pushed to the forefront time and again."
Cover art by David Wells.
Digital / $4
Print / $12
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Strange, moving, provocative fictions, poetry, and drama.
Inside the Issue
Brian Oliu : Siren Suite
Tim Dicks : The Fireman
Roxane Gay : Bare-Chested Men in Public Make
Me Uncomfortable
Laura LeHew : Two Poems
Roxanne Carter : Beyond This Point Are Monsters
Samuel Smith : Archipelago
Robert Alan Wendeborn : Find Replace
Robot Father
Candra Kolodziej: Hair and Teeth in Summertime
Rachel Adams : They Really Aren't
Blake Butler : Ricky's Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Gabriel Blackwell : An Interpretive History of Addition
Cover art by David Wells.
Print / $14
Digital/ $3
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Weird, haunting, dramatic fictions, poetry, and experiments.
Inside the Issue
John Colburn : The Story of the Second Husband,
The Two Witches
Rachel B. Glaser : The Moody Pencil
Tyler Gobble : Three Poems
J. A. Tyler : My Brother Came
Shome Dasgupta : Mud, Gone Went the Rabbit
Rachel Yoder : Partial History of a Parallel World
Kathleen Rooney & Elisa Gabbert: Three Jokes
A. D. Jameson : The Woords
René Georg Vasicek: The Improbability of Being Here Now
Michele Harris : Two Poems
Justin Anderson : Box Trap
Lindsay Hunter : The child the mom the dad the girl
Cover art by Leonard Kogan.
Print / $14
Digital/ $3