Contributors

Melissa Pritchard

Contributor History

The Hauser Variations (As Sung by Male Voices, A Capriccio), Conjunctions:45
Croquet, Online 07-01-2008
A Solemn Pleasure, Conjunctions:51
Ecorché: Flayed Man, Multimedia 07-24-2012 (mp3, 00:29:08)
On Bibliomancy, Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, and The Eating Papers; or, Proust’s Porridge, Conjunctions:63 (63:26-35)
City of Paris, Conjunctions:79
The Earth, Our Reliquary
Confessions of a Pilferer, Conjunctions:81

Biography

Melissa Pritchard's novel about Florence Nightingale, Flight of the Wild Swan, will be published by Bellevue Literary Press in March 2024. Author of twelve books, she has received three Pushcart Prizes, two O. Henry Awards, the Flannery O'Connor and Carl Sandburg Awards, an NEA, the Janet Kafka Fiction Prize and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great Writers Prize. She lives in Columbus, Georgia and is currently the fiction editor for IMAGE: Art, Faith, Mystery.

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In Print

Conjunctions:83

Revenants, The Ghost Issue

Fall 2024
Coedited by Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow

Online

Fredo and the Rain Club

by Jonathan Carroll

November 20, 2024

As a big surprise for her birthday, I gave in and bought the dog she’d been wanting for a long time. A frisky little caramel-colored dachshund she immediately named Fredo after the weak Corleone brother in The Godfather, her favorite movie. I thought it an odd name but it was her choice and her dog.

The Family Night Watchman

Translated from Chinese by Deanna Ren

by Can Xue

November 13, 2024

In the South, on the nights of a sweltering summer, we children like to sleep in the middle of the road. No cars pass by overnight; everyone plops their water-cooled bamboo beds outside, and the moment of excitement arrives. Ah, the corpse drivers! Ah, the Spider Demon King! Ah, the Milky Way!

Drive

by Brian Evenson

November 6, 2024

His body had been in the trunk some hours already when she began to feel him next to her in the cab as well. She couldn’t see him at first, could only sense he was there. But soon the hair on her right arm stood up and the air beside her began to shimmer. Before she began to see him fully, she whipped her gaze away.