A Brief Lexicon of Maladies by Atara Blake
From the desk of Dr. Salk—Here at The Night Clinic, we deal with a variety of unpleasant diseases and the patients who may or may not have them. For your…
From the desk of Dr. Salk—Here at The Night Clinic, we deal with a variety of unpleasant diseases and the patients who may or may not have them. For your…
Read "Dead Flowers Sing" Here Header image by Sovann Samedy
Writing a memoir is not a cake walk for anyone, I suspect. But my fifteen-year journey from desire to fruition (but not yet publication) dragged me out of my comfort…
I have perhaps the most unique job in the world. In addition to being a poet, I am the Executive Director of a monastery. This particular monastery is now many things…
With “End Screen of Your Life”, I wanted to write a story about video games as an extension of reality, the world of memory and dreams, a set of strange…
She is dipped in sadness.Did she know? Could she smell it on him?Was it on his clothes, as she bent to push them into the washer’s round belly?Was it in…
ORIGIN: Sometimes, I dream and wake up in paintings. I dream the oftenest of Goya, of being on his walls, the real walls in the Maestro's long lost home, LA…
Read "Enter the Hype House" Here This is one of the most original and compelling pieces we’ve read at Marrow in a long time. It has everything—YouTube fame, excessive wealth,…
"Lafayette" feels like such a poem of place. You do a brilliant job of conjuring the feeling of being in such a particular place and time. How do you approach…
The story incorporates elements that feel unconventional or “weird,” but they’re presented in a way that feels entirely natural within the world you’ve built. How do you approach normalizing the…