New Fiction 2014

Short Stories

  • “I’m the Meat, You’re the Knife” by Paul Theroux (2013)
  • “Summer of ‘38” by Colm Tóibín (2013)
  • “Zusya on the Roof” by Nicole Krauss (2013)
  • “Samsa in Love” by Haruki Murakami (2013)
  • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce (1890)
  • “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie (1993)
  • “Rock Springs” by Richard Ford (1987)
  • “Same Place, Same Things” by Tim Gautreux (1991)
  • “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
  • “An Inch and a Half of Glory” by Dashiell Hammet (2013)
  • “Rough Deeds” by Annie Proulx (2013)
  • “Slide to Unlock” by Ed Park (2013)
  • “Happy Trails” by Sherman Alexie (2013)
  • “Scenes of the Crime” by Cormac McCarthy (2013)
  • “Brotherly Love” by Jhumpa Lahiri (2013)
  • “The Judge’s Will” by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (2013)
  • “Weight Watchers” by Thomas McGuane (2013)
  • “The Last Few Kilometres” by Leonid Tsypkin (2012)
  • “The Christmas Miracle” by Rebecca Curtis (2013)
  • “The Night of the Satellite” by T. Coraghessan Boyle (2013)
  • “The Lost Order” by Rivka Galchen (2013)
  • “Amundsen” by Alice Munro (2012)
  • “The Women” by William Trevor (2013)
  • “The Furies” by Paul Theroux (2013)
  • “Mayfly” by Kevin Canty (2013)
  • “Spilled Salt” by Barbara Neely (1990)
  • “The Laugher” by Heinrich Böll (1966)
  • “The South” by Jorge Luis Borges (1956)
  • “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” by Angela Carter (1979)
  • “The Seamstress” by Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette (19xx)
  • “Amy Foster” by Joseph Conrad (1903)
  • “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro (2013)
  • “Coming Soon” by Steven Milhauser (2013)
  • “Island of Manhattan” by René Marqués (1974)
  • “The Street-Sweeping Show” by Feng Jicai (1982)
  • “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
  • “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell (1917)
  • “Sarzan” by Birago Diop (1947)
  • “Paseo” by José Donoso (1969)
  • “Love Medicine” by Louise Erdrich (1982)
  • “Boys at the Rodeo” by Judy Grahn (1978)
  • “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1843)
  • “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway (1927)
  • “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes (1953)
  • “The Gilded Six-Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston (1933)
  • “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (1948)
  • “A Story for Children” by Svava Jakobsdóttir (1975)
  • “Greville Fane” by Henry James (1892)
  • “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett (1886)
  • “A Report to an Academy” by Franz Kafka (1917)
  • “A Hand in the Grave” by Ghassan Kanafani (1962)
  • “Betel Nut is Bad Magic for Airplanes” by John Kasaipwalova (1972)
  • “The Gold-Legged Frog” by Khamsing Srinawk (1958)
  • “My Mother” by Jamaica Kincaid (1983)
  • “A Bird in the House” by Margaret Laurence (1972)
  • “The Old Chief Mshlanga” by Doris Lessing (1951)
  • “Or Else, the Lightning God” by Catherine Lim (1980)
  • “Half a Day” by Naguib Mahfouz (1989)
  • “Her First Ball” by Katherine Mansfield (1922)
  • “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason (1982)
  • “The Appointment in Samarra” by William Somerset Maugham (1933)
  • “Lush Life” by John McCluskey (1990)
  • “The One Who Goes Farthest Away” by Katherine Min (1990)
  • “Swaddling Clothes” by Mishima Yukio (1966)
  • “How to Become a Writer” by Lorrie Moore (1985)
  • “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison (1983)
  • “Mrs. Plum” by Es’kia Mphahlele (1967)
  • “The Elephant” by Slawomir Mrożek (1962)
  • “And We Sold the Rain” by Carmen Naranjo (1988)
  • “A Horse and Two Goats” by R. K. Narayan (1970)
  • “The Pale Fox” by Ōba Minako (1973)
  • “In the Shadow of War” by Ben Okri (1988)
  • “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen (1953)
  • “Black Girl” by Sembene Ousmane (1962)
  • “Nomad and Viper” by Amos Oz (1963)
  • “The Blue Bouquet” by Octavio Paz (1961)
  • “Mona Lisa” by Cristina Peri Rossi (1983)
  • “Insomnia” by Virgilio Piñera (1956)
  • “Rope” by Katherine Anne Porter (1930)
  • “The Proof” by Rodrigo Rey Rosa (1987)
  • “The Prophet’s Hair” by Salman Rushdie (1994)
  • “Gimpel the Fool” by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1953)
  • “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck (1938)
  • “Learning to Swim” by Graham Swift (1982)
  • “The Betrayal” by Véronique Tadjo (1992)
  • “Half and Half” by Amy Tan (1989)
  • “To All Eternity” by Haldun Taner (1948)
  • “The Complete Gentleman” by Amos Tutuola (1952)
  • “Luck” by Mark Twain (1891)
  • “Strange Things Happen Here” by Luisa Valenzuela (1975)
  • “Sunday” by Mario Vargas Llosa (1958)
  • “In Africa There Is a Type of Spider” by Yvonne Vera (2000)
  • “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker (1973)
  • “Why I Live at the P.O.” by Eudora Welty (1941)
  • “Kew Gardens” by Virginia Woolf (1919)
  • “The Daily Woman” by Niaz Zaman (1996)
  • “Pet Milk” by Stuart Dybek (1981)
  • “Saint Marie” by Louise Erdrich (1984)
  • “The Mail Lady” by David Gates (1999)
  • “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amp Hempel (1985)
  • “Cold Snap” by Thom Jones (1995)
  • “The Management of Grief” by Bharati Mukherjee (1988)
  • “Meneseteung” by Alice Munro (1990)
  • “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx (1999)
  • “Strays” by Mark Richard (1989)
  • “Intensive Care” by Lee Smith (1988)
  • “The Way We Live Now” by Susan Sontag (1986)
  • “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan (1989)
  • “First, Body” by Melanie Rae Thon (1997)
  • “Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog” by Stephanie Vaughn (1978)
  • “Fever” by John Edgar Wideman (1989)
  • “Taking Care” by Joy Williams (1972)
  • “Terrified” by C. B. Gilford (1959)
  • “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” by William Austin
  • “The Wives of the Dead” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” by Herman Melville
  • “The Ghost in the Mill” by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • “Cannibalism in the Cars” by Samuel Clemens
  • “The Storm” by Kate Chopin
  • “The Sheriff’s Children” by Charles Chesnutt
  • “The Middle Years” by Henry James
  • “In a Far Country” by Jack London
  • “Old Woman Magoun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • “The Little Regiment” by Stephen Crane
  • “A Journey” by Edith Wharton
  • “The Strength of God” by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
  • “A Death in the Desert” by Willa Cather
  • “Blood-Burning Moon” by Jean Toomer (1923)
  • “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway (1933)
  • “An Alcoholic Case” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1937)
  • “The Girl with a Pimply Face” by William Carlos Williams (1961)
  • “He” by Katherine Anne Porter (1930)
  • “That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner (1931)
  • “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston
  • “Red-Headed Baby” by Langston Hughes (1934)
  • “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright (1987)
  • “A Late Encounter with the Enemy” by Flannery O’Connor (1953)
  • “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison (1948)
  • “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury (1950)
  • “Rain in the Heart” by Peter Taylor (1941)
  • “The Lecture” by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1968)
  • “My Son the Murderer” by Bernard Malamud (1968)
  • “Something to Remember Me By” by Saul Bellow (1990)
  • “The Death of Justina” by John Cheever (1960)
  • “Texts” by Ursula K. Le Guin (1990)
  • “The Persistence of Desire” by John Updike (1959)
  • “Alaska” by Alice Adams (1984)
  • “Are These Actual Miles?” by Raymond Carver (1972)
  • “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff (1976)
  • “Big Bertha Stories” by Bobbie Ann Mason (1988)
  • “Fleur” by Louise Erdrich (1988)
  • “Gravity” by David Leavitt (1990)
  • “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros (1989)
  • “Town Smokes” by Pinckney Benedict (1987)

Video Games

  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door dev. Nintendo and Intelligent Systems (2004)
  • The Walking Dead: 400 Days dev. TellTale Games and Skybound Entertainment (2013)
  • Papers, Please dev. Lukas Pope (2013)
  • Actual Sunlight dev. Will O’Neill (2014)
  • Castles in the Sky dev. The Tall Trees (2014)
  • The Walking Dead: Season 2 dev. TellTale Games and Skybound Entertainment (2013-2014)
  • Shovel Knight dev. Yacht Club Games (2014)
  • The Simpsons: Tapped Out dev. Electronic Arts (2012-2014)

Novels

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (1997)
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
  • The Getaway by Jim Thompson (1958)
  • The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (1988)
  • Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (1993)
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

Comics

  • Wolverine: Old Man Logan by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven (2008-2009)
  • Black Hole by Charles Burns (1995-2005)
  • “Soup” by Irene Koh (2014)
  • We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (2004)

Films

  • 200 Cigarettes dir. Risa Bramon Garcia (1999)
  • Wild Boys of the Road dir. William A. Wellman (1933)
  • Detour dir. Edgar G. Ulmer (1945)
  • Two-Lane Blacktop dir. Monte Hellman (1971)
  • The Manchurian Candidate dir. John Frankenheimer (1962)
  • Patton dir. Franklin J. Schaffner (1970)
  • Badlands dir. Terrence Malick (1973)
  • On the Road dir. Walter Salles (2012)
  • Smoke Signals dir. Chris Eyre (1998)
  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert dir. Stephan Elliott (1994)
  • Cabeza de Vaca dir. Nicolás Echevarría (1991)
  • Ida dir. Pawel Pawlikowski (2013)
  • Pacific Rim dir. Guillermo del Toro (2013)
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon dir. Michael Bay (2011)
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes dir. Matt Reeves (2014)
  • Edge of Tomorrow dir. Doug Liman (2014)
  • Wicked City dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1987)
  • The Equalizer dir. Antoine Fuqua (2014)
  • The Homesman dir. Tommy Lee Jones (2014)
  • The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies dir. Peter Jackson (2014)
  • Godzilla dir. Gareth Edwards (2014)

Short Films

  • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” dir. Robert Enrico (1962)
  • “I’ll Wait for the Next One” dir. Phillippe Orreindy (2002)
  • “Zen & the Art of Landscaping” dir. David Kartch (2001)
  • “Inja” dir. Steve Pasvolsky (2002)
  • “Kitchen Sink” dir. Alison Maclean (1989)
  • “Gridlock” dir. Dirk Beliën (2001)
  • “Black Rider” dir. Pepe Danquart (1993)
  • “Our Time Is Up” dir. Rob Pearlstein (2004)
  • “Six Shooter” dir. Martin McDonagh (2004)
  • “Spider” dir. Nash Edgerton (2007)
  • “Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade” dir. George Hickenlooper (1994)
  • “More” dir. Mark Osborne (1998)

Television

  • Dexter – Season 8 (2013)
  • Sherlock – Series 3 (2013)
  • Adventure Time – Season 1 (2010)
  • Over the Garden Wall (2014)
  • Bee and Puppycat – Season 1 (2014)

New Fiction 2014

Short Stories

  • “I’m the Meat, You’re the Knife” by Paul Theroux (2013)
  • “Summer of ‘38” by Colm Tóibín (2013)
  • “Zusya on the Roof” by Nicole Krauss (2013)
  • “Samsa in Love” by Haruki Murakami (2013)
  • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce (1890)
  • “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie (1993)
  • “Rock Springs” by Richard Ford (1987)
  • “Same Place, Same Things” by Tim Gautreux (1991)
  • “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
  • “An Inch and a Half of Glory” by Dashiell Hammet (2013)
  • “Rough Deeds” by Annie Proulx (2013)
  • “Slide to Unlock” by Ed Park (2013)
  • “Happy Trails” by Sherman Alexie (2013)
  • “Scenes of the Crime” by Cormac McCarthy (2013)
  • “Brotherly Love” by Jhumpa Lahiri (2013)
  • “The Judge’s Will” by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (2013)
  • “Weight Watchers” by Thomas McGuane (2013)
  • “The Last Few Kilometres” by Leonid Tsypkin (2012)
  • “The Christmas Miracle” by Rebecca Curtis (2013)
  • “The Night of the Satellite” by T. Coraghessan Boyle (2013)
  • “The Lost Order” by Rivka Galchen (2013)
  • “Amundsen” by Alice Munro (2012)
  • “The Women” by William Trevor (2013)
  • “The Furies” by Paul Theroux (2013)
  • “Mayfly” by Kevin Canty (2013)
  • “Spilled Salt” by Barbara Neely (1990)
  • “The Laugher” by Heinrich Böll (1966)
  • “The South” by Jorge Luis Borges (1956)
  • “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” by Angela Carter (1979)
  • “The Seamstress” by Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette (19xx)
  • “Amy Foster” by Joseph Conrad (1903)
  • “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro (2013)
  • “Coming Soon” by Steven Milhauser (2013)
  • “Island of Manhattan” by René Marqués (1974)
  • “The Street-Sweeping Show” by Feng Jicai (1982)
  • “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
  • “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell (1917)
  • “Sarzan” by Birago Diop (1947)
  • “Paseo” by José Donoso (1969)
  • “Love Medicine” by Louise Erdrich (1982)
  • “Boys at the Rodeo” by Judy Grahn (1978)
  • “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1843)
  • “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway (1927)
  • “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes (1953)
  • “The Gilded Six-Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston (1933)
  • “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (1948)
  • “A Story for Children” by Svava Jakobsdóttir (1975)
  • “Greville Fane” by Henry James (1892)
  • “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett (1886)
  • “A Report to an Academy” by Franz Kafka (1917)
  • “A Hand in the Grave” by Ghassan Kanafani (1962)
  • “Betel Nut is Bad Magic for Airplanes” by John Kasaipwalova (1972)
  • “The Gold-Legged Frog” by Khamsing Srinawk (1958)
  • “My Mother” by Jamaica Kincaid (1983)
  • “A Bird in the House” by Margaret Laurence (1972)
  • “The Old Chief Mshlanga” by Doris Lessing (1951)
  • “Or Else, the Lightning God” by Catherine Lim (1980)
  • “Half a Day” by Naguib Mahfouz (1989)
  • “Her First Ball” by Katherine Mansfield (1922)
  • “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason (1982)
  • “The Appointment in Samarra” by William Somerset Maugham (1933)
  • “Lush Life” by John McCluskey (1990)
  • “The One Who Goes Farthest Away” by Katherine Min (1990)
  • “Swaddling Clothes” by Mishima Yukio (1966)
  • “How to Become a Writer” by Lorrie Moore (1985)
  • “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison (1983)
  • “Mrs. Plum” by Es’kia Mphahlele (1967)
  • “The Elephant” by Slawomir Mrożek (1962)
  • “And We Sold the Rain” by Carmen Naranjo (1988)
  • “A Horse and Two Goats” by R. K. Narayan (1970)
  • “The Pale Fox” by Ōba Minako (1973)
  • “In the Shadow of War” by Ben Okri (1988)
  • “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen (1953)
  • “Black Girl” by Sembene Ousmane (1962)
  • “Nomad and Viper” by Amos Oz (1963)
  • “The Blue Bouquet” by Octavio Paz (1961)
  • “Mona Lisa” by Cristina Peri Rossi (1983)
  • “Insomnia” by Virgilio Piñera (1956)
  • “Rope” by Katherine Anne Porter (1930)
  • “The Proof” by Rodrigo Rey Rosa (1987)
  • “The Prophet’s Hair” by Salman Rushdie (1994)
  • “Gimpel the Fool” by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1953)
  • “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck (1938)
  • “Learning to Swim” by Graham Swift (1982)
  • “The Betrayal” by Véronique Tadjo (1992)
  • “Half and Half” by Amy Tan (1989)
  • “To All Eternity” by Haldun Taner (1948)
  • “The Complete Gentleman” by Amos Tutuola (1952)
  • “Luck” by Mark Twain (1891)
  • “Strange Things Happen Here” by Luisa Valenzuela (1975)
  • “Sunday” by Mario Vargas Llosa (1958)
  • “In Africa There Is a Type of Spider” by Yvonne Vera (2000)
  • “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker (1973)
  • “Why I Live at the P.O.” by Eudora Welty (1941)
  • “Kew Gardens” by Virginia Woolf (1919)
  • “The Daily Woman” by Niaz Zaman (1996)
  • “Pet Milk” by Stuart Dybek (1981)
  • “Saint Marie” by Louise Erdrich (1984)
  • “The Mail Lady” by David Gates (1999)
  • “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amp Hempel (1985)
  • “Cold Snap” by Thom Jones (1995)
  • “The Management of Grief” by Bharati Mukherjee (1988)
  • “Meneseteung” by Alice Munro (1990)
  • “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx (1999)
  • “Strays” by Mark Richard (1989)
  • “Intensive Care” by Lee Smith (1988)
  • “The Way We Live Now” by Susan Sontag (1986)
  • “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan (1989)
  • “First, Body” by Melanie Rae Thon (1997)
  • “Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog” by Stephanie Vaughn (1978)
  • “Fever” by John Edgar Wideman (1989)
  • “Taking Care” by Joy Williams (1972)
  • “Terrified” by C. B. Gilford (1959)
  • “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” by William Austin
  • “The Wives of the Dead” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” by Herman Melville
  • “The Ghost in the Mill” by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • “Cannibalism in the Cars” by Samuel Clemens
  • “The Storm” by Kate Chopin
  • “The Sheriff’s Children” by Charles Chesnutt
  • “The Middle Years” by Henry James
  • “In a Far Country” by Jack London
  • “Old Woman Magoun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • “The Little Regiment” by Stephen Crane
  • “A Journey” by Edith Wharton
  • “The Strength of God” by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
  • “A Death in the Desert” by Willa Cather
  • “Blood-Burning Moon” by Jean Toomer (1923)
  • “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway (1933)
  • “An Alcoholic Case” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1937)
  • “The Girl with a Pimply Face” by William Carlos Williams (1961)
  • “He” by Katherine Anne Porter (1930)
  • “That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner (1931)
  • “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston
  • “Red-Headed Baby” by Langston Hughes (1934)
  • “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright (1987)
  • “A Late Encounter with the Enemy” by Flannery O’Connor (1953)
  • “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison (1948)
  • “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury (1950)
  • “Rain in the Heart” by Peter Taylor (1941)
  • “The Lecture” by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1968)
  • “My Son the Murderer” by Bernard Malamud (1968)
  • “Something to Remember Me By” by Saul Bellow (1990)
  • “The Death of Justina” by John Cheever (1960)
  • “Texts” by Ursula K. Le Guin (1990)
  • “The Persistence of Desire” by John Updike (1959)
  • “Alaska” by Alice Adams (1984)
  • “Are These Actual Miles?” by Raymond Carver (1972)
  • “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff (1976)
  • “Big Bertha Stories” by Bobbie Ann Mason (1988)
  • “Fleur” by Louise Erdrich (1988)
  • “Gravity” by David Leavitt (1990)
  • “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros (1989)
  • “Town Smokes” by Pinckney Benedict (1987)

Video Games

  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door dev. Nintendo and Intelligent Systems (2004)
  • The Walking Dead: 400 Days dev. TellTale Games and Skybound Entertainment (2013)
  • Papers, Please dev. Lukas Pope (2013)
  • Actual Sunlight dev. Will O’Neill (2014)
  • Castles in the Sky dev. The Tall Trees (2014)
  • The Walking Dead: Season 2 dev. TellTale Games and Skybound Entertainment (2013-2014)
  • Shovel Knight dev. Yacht Club Games (2014)
  • The Simpsons: Tapped Out dev. Electronic Arts (2012-2014)

Novels

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (1997)
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
  • The Getaway by Jim Thompson (1958)
  • The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (1988)
  • Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (1993)
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

Comics

  • Wolverine: Old Man Logan by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven (2008-2009)
  • Black Hole by Charles Burns (1995-2005)
  • “Soup” by Irene Koh (2014)
  • We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (2004)

Films

  • 200 Cigarettes dir. Risa Bramon Garcia (1999)
  • Wild Boys of the Road dir. William A. Wellman (1933)
  • Detour dir. Edgar G. Ulmer (1945)
  • Two-Lane Blacktop dir. Monte Hellman (1971)
  • The Manchurian Candidate dir. John Frankenheimer (1962)
  • Patton dir. Franklin J. Schaffner (1970)
  • Badlands dir. Terrence Malick (1973)
  • On the Road dir. Walter Salles (2012)
  • Smoke Signals dir. Chris Eyre (1998)
  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert dir. Stephan Elliott (1994)
  • Cabeza de Vaca dir. Nicolás Echevarría (1991)
  • Ida dir. Pawel Pawlikowski (2013)
  • Pacific Rim dir. Guillermo del Toro (2013)
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon dir. Michael Bay (2011)
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes dir. Matt Reeves (2014)
  • Edge of Tomorrow dir. Doug Liman (2014)
  • Wicked City dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1987)
  • The Equalizer dir. Antoine Fuqua (2014)
  • The Homesman dir. Tommy Lee Jones (2014)
  • The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies dir. Peter Jackson (2014)
  • Godzilla dir. Gareth Edwards (2014)

Short Films

  • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” dir. Robert Enrico (1962)
  • “I’ll Wait for the Next One” dir. Phillippe Orreindy (2002)
  • “Zen & the Art of Landscaping” dir. David Kartch (2001)
  • “Inja” dir. Steve Pasvolsky (2002)
  • “Kitchen Sink” dir. Alison Maclean (1989)
  • “Gridlock” dir. Dirk Beliën (2001)
  • “Black Rider” dir. Pepe Danquart (1993)
  • “Our Time Is Up” dir. Rob Pearlstein (2004)
  • “Six Shooter” dir. Martin McDonagh (2004)
  • “Spider” dir. Nash Edgerton (2007)
  • “Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade” dir. George Hickenlooper (1994)
  • “More” dir. Mark Osborne (1998)

Television

  • Dexter – Season 8 (2013)
  • Sherlock – Series 3 (2013)
  • Adventure Time – Season 1 (2010)
  • Over the Garden Wall (2014)
  • Bee and Puppycat – Season 1 (2014)

So Far Back

Okay, okay, okay.

Ah, okay, okay.

This blue bird fainted and fell into some laundry in Poe’s living room. It was flailing around like a fish. It would’ve died, but Poe came out of his study and noticed the movement. He stopped his pacing to investigate.

“The hell?”

The blue bird said, “Help!”

Poe reached down and scooped the critter up in his hands.

“The hell are you doing in my laundry?”

“Suffocating,” it said. “What do you do? Those clothes are rancid.”

“I suffer,” said Poe.

The blue bird lifted its wing to its forehead and leaned so far back it flipped out of Poe’s hand and onto the floor.

“Shit,” said Poe. “You alright?”

“No,” said the blue bird. “Which way to the exit?”

“Well, I think—Hey, stick around, please? I’d like someone to talk to.”

The blue bird stretched its long legs. One was slightly shorter than the other, so it leaned to one side.

“You want I should listen to you talk?” it said.

“Yes,” said Poe.

“What about?”

“Oh, the things.”

“That sounds dirty-minded. I don’t go in for those chats.”

“It’s not! And anyway, what’s wrong with dirty-minded things?”

“That’s for the right company, and no offense, but it’s not you,” said the blue bird.

Poe covered his mouth. He held it there longer than he should have.

The blue bird flew up to the stove. It looked in the pan.

“I heard tell that there was once a princess who asked for one gift from her father the king. He promised it before she even said it (which you ought not do). She asked for the gift of flight. The king had his people investigate. Turns out we have light bones, light as empty twigs. That’s how we get about.”

Poe sat on the floor. His eyes were red, his lids puffy.

“The king explained the findings. Light bones, aerodynamics, all that. The princess held him to his word. A promise is a promise is bondage. The king knew it. He had them make a feather suit for her with wide flaps between the wrist and ribs. There was also a tail of sorts between the ankles. Finally, the king sucked innards from her bones. She was light but brittle, and her head was still like a rock. So he scooped out all he could, just enough.”

“He murdered her!” said Poe.

“See, now, I’m not finished. Settle down. The king took these parts of her and kept them safe in the basement where it was cold and rainy. Well, drippy. That old moisture. So she was preserved, you see. And then she was carried to the top of a ridge, held up by the wrists and ankles, and thrown to the wind.”

The blue bird nudged the meat in the pan. It was cold. The grease was congealed.

“Quail?” it asked.

“Well? Did the princess fly?”

“Uh, yeah, pretty far. As far as ducks. And the king never saw her again. That’s quail, right?”

Poe stood up. He wiped his face and looked at the pan.

“No, I um, I think it’s chicken.”

The blue bird looked up, then flew to the window.

“Do your laundry,” it said. “And clean your pan.”

“Hey, what was that story about?” asked Poe.

The blue bird held its wing to its head again and fell out through the window. It yelled “It’s about whatever!”

So Far Back

Okay, okay, okay.

Ah, okay, okay.

This blue bird fainted and fell into some laundry in Poe’s living room. It was flailing around like a fish. It would’ve died, but Poe came out of his study and noticed the movement. He stopped his pacing to investigate.

“The hell?”

The blue bird said, “Help!”

Poe reached down and scooped the critter up in his hands.

“The hell are you doing in my laundry?”

“Suffocating,” it said. “What do you do? Those clothes are rancid.”

“I suffer,” said Poe.

The blue bird lifted its wing to its forehead and leaned so far back it flipped out of Poe’s hand and onto the floor.

“Shit,” said Poe. “You alright?”

“No,” said the blue bird. “Which way to the exit?”

“Well, I think—Hey, stick around, please? I’d like someone to talk to.”

The blue bird stretched its long legs. One was slightly shorter than the other, so it leaned to one side.

“You want I should listen to you talk?” it said.

“Yes,” said Poe.

“What about?”

“Oh, the things.”

“That sounds dirty-minded. I don’t go in for those chats.”

“It’s not! And anyway, what’s wrong with dirty-minded things?”

“That’s for the right company, and no offense, but it’s not you,” said the blue bird.

Poe covered his mouth. He held it there longer than he should have.

The blue bird flew up to the stove. It looked in the pan.

“I heard tell that there was once a princess who asked for one gift from her father the king. He promised it before she even said it (which you ought not do). She asked for the gift of flight. The king had his people investigate. Turns out we have light bones, light as empty twigs. That’s how we get about.”

Poe sat on the floor. His eyes were red, his lids puffy.

“The king explained the findings. Light bones, aerodynamics, all that. The princess held him to his word. A promise is a promise is bondage. The king knew it. He had them make a feather suit for her with wide flaps between the wrist and ribs. There was also a tail of sorts between the ankles. Finally, the king sucked innards from her bones. She was light but brittle, and her head was still like a rock. So he scooped out all he could, just enough.”

“He murdered her!” said Poe.

“See, now, I’m not finished. Settle down. The king took these parts of her and kept them safe in the basement where it was cold and rainy. Well, drippy. That old moisture. So she was preserved, you see. And then she was carried to the top of a ridge, held up by the wrists and ankles, and thrown to the wind.”

The blue bird nudged the meat in the pan. It was cold. The grease was congealed.

“Quail?” it asked.

“Well? Did the princess fly?”

“Uh, yeah, pretty far. As far as ducks. And the king never saw her again. That’s quail, right?”

Poe stood up. He wiped his face and looked at the pan.

“No, I um, I think it’s chicken.”

The blue bird looked up, then flew to the window.

“Do your laundry,” it said. “And clean your pan.”

“Hey, what was that story about?” asked Poe.

The blue bird held its wing to its head again and fell out through the window. It yelled “It’s about whatever!”