Filed under: issue #1 | Tags: Adam Wilson, Anya Yurchyshyn, Ben Blum, Dan Bevacqua, Derek Johnson, Doug Elsass, Ed Park, Gigantic, Gigantic magazine, Justin Taylor, Kenny Aquiles, Kristen O'Toole, Lauren Spohrer, Matt Di Paoli, Pedro Ponce, shane jones, tao lin, Yuka Igarashi
GIGANTIC #1 PREVIEW POST (1 of 3)
Art (with Nate Russell, Todd Zuniga, Jerome Jakubiec and more) and interviews (with Malcolm Gladwell, Deb Olin Unferth, Gary Shteyngart, Sam Lipsyte and more) to come!
One-Sentence Prose Preview
The look of: I want to tear your bloody head off.
Derek Johnson as distorted by Rozalia Jovanovic
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It was just large enough for me to fit my arm through.
Ben Blum
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Mostly I drive in search of half-wits at public libraries, all day bars, halfway houses, and Sears Roebucks.
Doug Elsass
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…taking a wheel off a skateboard and taping the hamster to where the wheel was and trying to skateboard with one wheel as a hamster…
Tao Lin
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It wasn’t like there wasn’t discussion.
Yuka Igarashi
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She asks me if I watched the news and I say I don’t watch the news and she should know that.
Matt Di Paoli
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GO LOOK AT THE CALENDAR AND WRITE DOWN WHAT IT SAYS THEY DO ON WEDNESDAY YOU’LL KNOW WHAT I MEAN WHEN YOU SEE IT.
Ed Park
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Our neighbors had been hosting a slumber party.
Kristen O’Toole
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“Are we going to have to participate?” my husband asked.
Anya Yurchyshyn
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He reminds me that it isn’t an ocean, it’s a river, and then he asks me what my problem is.
Dan Bevacqua
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If asked, I would even say she is sweet all over, and would mean what I said, though of course this is figurative language.
Justin Taylor
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Also, we lived in a village of giants.
Shane Jones
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347.242.0434
Kenny Aquiles
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Then he looked at porn on his grandfather’s computer and accidentally spilled jizz on his grandfather’s tackle box.
Lauren Spohrer
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The nightly detonations continue.
Pedro Ponce
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“I’m not a bad girl,” she said, as if morality had something to do with it.
Adam Wilson
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