The Outhouse Biography repeats itself, at first in a stutter then as an obsession. I am one of the many diasporic gophers: I stick my head from tunnels of another world, dig in curves, in semi-circles, in tunnels shaped like letters – these, here. The trouble with biography is its starting point – the one […]

Angela lives in a house on W. 83rd St. Angela is thirty-one. She has mid-length brown hair. She’s on the taller side of average, and her face is relatively thin. The house is large, and quiet. It has a dark wood interior. Many windows let cold light enter. Angela lives in the house, and it […]

We Responsible Others Commissioned to develop a sculpture, the artist instead found herself attempting to define the space around it. What use is a sculpture without a room, a world? she’d asked her gallerist, who reminded her that the municipal client had come with a certain budget. Your job is to make things, the gallerist […]

In 2022, we were able to accomplish the following: »» Published Fence issue #39 and paid all contributors $50 each. Prepared Fence issue is #40, ready to be transmitted to the printer the first week of January.  »» Began a new dedicated translation section of Fence and invited submissions. »» Created the Visiting Editor position, […]

In the house I grew up in, I am in the living room with the high ceiling and the low carpet. My wife is in the kitchen turning either side of the kitchen-sink faucet to make sure one of them comes out hot. The house is ours, if we want it. Uproot and all? she […]

Defi’s left knee was torn out from a ski accident. Sitting in her own apartment, she waited for her friend, Han Solo, to come and help her move. When he arrived, standing in front of her front door, he looked up and down at the boxes of clothes, her laundry basket, her table and chair, […]