Our Commutual Mea Culpa by Renata Voss 30 pages. Tape-bound. Book design by Elsie Grover In 1829, an anonymous writer published the domestic tale of wicked children and sexual intrigue titled Our Commutual Mea Culpa. Later reprinted as Red Casket…
It’s once again time for The Cupboard’s Fourth-Ever Contest. As always, one winning manuscript will be published as a volume of The Cupboard and its author will receive contributor’s copies. We’re incredibly excited to announce our judge this year: it’s…
The Cupboard is a quarterly pamphlet of creative prose published in Lincoln, Nebraska. Each volume features a body of work by a single author. The Cupboard is co-edited and published by hollis j. renner, Nolan Corliss, and Evan Pruitt. Grant…
about the fall by Wesley Trask The beginning of the story is that one summer my left lung collapsed. I was twenty-three and probably didn’t deserve that helicopter flight to Nebraska City, but as my boss that summer had liked…
Catalpa by Claudia Reinholt 50 pages. Tape-bound. Book design: Nathan Grant Ashcroft Cover photographs: Claudia Reinholt We cannot know what nonfiction is until we know how to punctuate it. We cannot know how to punctuate it until we admit the…
A mysterious woman known as Marie de France wrote a series of twelve short narrative Breton lais in the 12th century, one of which she titled “Bisclavret” (which can be translated as “The Werewolf” in Breton, and “Garwolf” in Norman).…