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10,000 Tons of Black Ink will release its 2009 “Best Of” print edition in mid February featuring the strongest pieces published online during the course of the year.

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Thursday, February 11, 2010
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You stand on the sidewalk facing the long room, a room that you have walked past one-hundred times and have never noticed it is there. Read story and editor comments…


I was born on a bathroom floor, in a first-story apartment, on the corner of 56th and Avers. Read story and editor comments…


I. Pete

We left Saint Xavier’s High School before fourth period ended, just walked out on Father Bernard with him cutting us dead with his stare. Read story and editor comments…


Sometimes they simply give you the wrong name.
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Herbert Pannecouke, recovering frotteur, missed the feeling of rubbing up against rumps in elevators. Read story and editor comments…


Five lines and forty-five minutes into her latest attempt at a poem, Leah decides it’s now okay to call the effort—um. Well. Normally, she’d look for a bigger word, something a bit more… more, but the fact of the matter is that the poem is stupid, simply and purely. Read story and editor/author comments…


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Cambodia, April 27, 1974

Chan Kim had finally lulled baby Chavy to sleep when she heard squeaks and rattles of large vehicles. Read novel excerpt and editor/author comments…


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One worries about a confessional tone right off the bat. Read story and editor/author comments…