A Note From the Wet Bandits, by Gina Myers
I’ve been sick for two weeks but America has been sick its whole life. America will always choose a rich white kid over two guys living...
The Gift of the (Da)magi(ng), by Alissa Nutting
Della and Jimmy fought all the time. People often told them, “You fight like a married couple!” This joke was usually told by a mutual...
Hermey in New York, by Ravi Mangla
For Hermey, those snowy, lamp-lit evenings had lost their luster. Once, as a younger man, he would frequent the queen bars in the...
Sometimes, a Rifle Really is Just a Rifle, by Erin Fitzgerald
The snowy December recess at Warren G. Harding Elementary School was only the beginning. Flick’s mother had re-bandaged his tongue after...
Good Grief: An Oral History of the Northfield Christmas Play Special, Brought to You by Coca Cola,
Charles Brown: I think it was called like the “Coca Cola Northfield Christmas Special” or something like that? And then the next year --...
The Snowman in Love, by Tom McAllister
Thirty years after the incident in the greenhouse, Karen would relate it to her second husband as a turning point in her life—an...
Set the Bar a Little Lower by Steve Almond
Each year Barrelhouse hosts the Conversations & Connections Conference, a one-day writer's conference that brings together writers,...
BOO EVERYTHING: WWE’S Royal Rumble 2014 and our collective spiritual wars, by Russell Jaffee
“Just cause it’s fake doesn’t mean I don’t feel it” –Laird, GIRLS (Season 3, Episode 4) Pro wrestling has got to be one of the weirdest...
Judge Shows (part 2) - Cultural Masochism and Performed Poverty, by Tom McAllister
NOTE: This post is part 13 in an ongoing series of reviews of syndicated daytime TV shows by Barrelhouse editor Tom McAllister. See the...
Rejected Ideas 1-7, by Tom McAllister
NOTE: This post is part 11 in an ongoing series of reviews of syndicated daytime TV shows by Barrelhouse editor Tom McAllister. See the...
