Summertime by Mairead Case I know Max’s face better than anybody else’s face. We sat together during freshman year chem and junior year English, senior year English, the taco drive thru and the taco drive thru and the taco drive thru. That one time he took too many mushrooms and locked himself in the bathroom, started crying. It was the summer after graduation and we were both ready not to be eighteen. We both thought the same shit sucked. We […]
Announcing: Taking Submissions for Fall/Winter Sunday Story Series
Vol. 1 is looking for original submissions for our Sunday Story Series. We will be taking submissions between now and Nov. 1st for the Fall/Winter. The stories can be fiction or non-fiction, and should be no more than 2,000 words. At the end of 2011, we plan on compiling the stories into an anthology for Julius Singer Press. For questions or submissions please e-mail info@vol1brooklyn.com
Sunday Stories: “La Jolla Babylon (Part One)” by Aaron Hartman
When he isn’t playing in bands like Old Time Relijun or Girls in Trouble, Aaron Hatman can be found honing his popcorn making skills and writing stories about growing up in San Diego. “La Jolla Babylon (Part One)” by Aaron Hartman We thought we thought big. Our goal was to be able to leave any party and have more fun. We liked to steal flags. We discriminated between cotton and polyester, and would not take one if there was no […]
Sunday Stories: Lake Celeste or The Joy of Sex
This week’s Sunday Story comes to us from Emily Meg Weinstein. You can read more of her stories at her website Super Lefty. I “The country” is what we always called the house my grandparents built about an hour from New York, on a man-made lake named Lake Celeste. It looked like the country in books. My grandmother has never called it “the country.” She calls it, grandly, “Celeste.”
Sunday Stories: Peace, Love & Understanding at First Church of The Church Before Church
Welcome to the first in a new series of Sunday stories presented by Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Our first story comes via an excerpt from badbadbad, a multimedia novel by Jesús Ángel García. More info can be found at this website or this Twitter. From his shrimp-like curl on the altar floor, the Reverend asked, “What is the first step to happiness?” * * * Standing tall now at the lectern, he proposed in today’s Sunday story a ban on the […]