Shane Kowalski

Shane Kowalski lives in Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, EPOCH, Fence, The Iowa Review, Muumuu House, and elsewhere. He’s the author of the story collections Small Moods (Future Tense Books) and Are People Out There (Future Tense Books)

BECKETTIAN by Shane Kowalski

November 10, 2025 · Fiction

Murphy was visiting Malone. It had been a while since they had seen each other. Murphy being busy in the city, while Malone had lingered in the countryside. Murphy remembered those dark country roads, whizzing down them in the nights as a youth. No noise. But at the same time, all the noise in the world. The humming shadows. Malone was always the type to leave enough room between himself and other people. Murphy, on the other hand, had become a successful C-AWP II, a thing he so frequently had to explain to new acquaintances that it had lost all…

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CRAWL ON ME by Shane Kowalski

July 25, 2018 · Fiction

A lot of times, after having disgusting sex at her slow nephew’s cabin, we’d just get very sick of each other and begin volleying hurt back and forth. Don’t call my nephew slow, she’d say. I have a cousin who’s slow, I’d say. It’s okay. My nephew’s not slow though, she’d say. Have you met him? I’d say. She’d put her silver hair up, spit in my shoe. I’d tell her not to do that. Oh what are you going to do, she’d say. And I wouldn’t do anything. Why am I thinking of this now? …I think it’s because…

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