In early spring of 2023, the Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) and Fence invited visual and sound artist Spencer Hutchinson and poet and writer Alyssa Perry to participate in the first of an ongoing series of cross-disciplinary exchange and collaboration between our nonprofit arts organizations. ESS and Fence suggested opening their sound and text archives to […]

A few hours before dinner, Dad walked into the restaurant and placed a bomb under the table. He armed it, set the timer and walked out. Our reservation was at six. We met in traffic. I was walking home and Dad was in his rental car, halted at one of the many red lights. The […]

Séance So-and-so with your arms at your side — tiny bits of mercury in your mouth. true crime is never as disturbing as the podcast claims. so, someone doesn’t get out alive; big deal. I have an app on my iPhone that alerts me when there’s gunfire — West 4th and whatever – my stomach […]

When Jeff Alessandrelli handed me a copy of And Yet, which was reissued by Future Tense Books in April 2024, he noted the book was a work of speculative fiction. I recently described it to someone as Boy Bluets. When Nik Slackman, a digital editor at Fence, read an excerpt, he said: “I love this. […]

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