Mark Wisniewski
Mark Wisniewski’s collection of short stories, All Weekend with the Lights On, was recently published by Leaping Dog Press. He lives in Lake Peekskill, New York, where he spends his free time studying the lake’s surface with his ten-year-old cat Penostrhope.
Your Life’s Stakes
Full of Energy breaks well and jumps out into the lead, with Sense of Invincibility and Junk Food close behind. Galloping into fourth is Heart Murmur, who is now reined in and drops back into fifth beside Astigmatism on the rail, the rest of the pack trailing by a good nine lengths.
August 2007My Stupid Harmony
The Wish Family was my family dressed in red-white-and-blue outfits, performing songs written by my father and played by my older brother Todd on our secondhand piano, my sister Mare on a convicted uncle’s guitar, and my little brother Jay on a snare drum so beaten its skin had been taped.
May 2001How Lucky We Are
I’m not sure I like any of the three lines that always work for me. They’re all from the “Did you ever notice?” category of jokes, an overused category, but one with which even rookie comedians can kill the most sober of audiences.
December 1994Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
SEND US A LETTER