Joseph Grantham

Leg Spoke Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“She took him on a walk early every morning. Leg protested at first, but he was able to forget himself for long stretches of the trail. Knee made a fuss. He was stiff. He didn’t seem willing to hold the rest of Leg up.”

Read new fiction by Sherril Jaffe:

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i had forgotten about R&R after i ditched twitter and for whatever reason, just remembered it again and went digging through some of the recent stuff. really enjoy these 3 shorties from gabe jimenez-ekman!

Hi, I'm Carl From Upstairs Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

““I thought it might be a good day to make spaghetti sauce. I’d made spaghetti sauce before. But this time, I decided, it was going to be different.”

Read new fiction by Ken Sparling on R&R:

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Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“It feels wrong to move away from this place
Listening to this music,
Sitting in the car, about to pull away

The leaves in the distance, all around,
Don’t want you to leave yet
And so you stay and listen”

Read four new poems by Vincent Katz on R&R:

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Two Stories Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“He drinks so slow I don’t know whether to feel put on or just alcoholic. He spits talking and my face is in the way so what’s the dignified response.”

Read two new stories by Selen Ozturk:

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Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“one day I was out in my shoes
red shop peaks my interest
sign said apply inside
so I gone in
but didn’t smell no apples
that was sad”

Read four new poems by Greg Brownderville:

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Three Stories Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I never felt anything. I had a hard time in high school, got bullied a lot. Dropped out of college after one semester. Then I started as a clerk at the grocery store.”

Read three new stories by Gabe Jimenez-Ekman:

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Two Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“In heaven there are no automatic weapons
To be found guilty of a crime there
One need only to have arrived unexpectedly”

Read two new poems by Norman Fischer on R&R:

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Buddy Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Once you get them back to your place, you pet him and he curls up on your lap and then you see it: that sparkle in their eyes, the tenderness. Suddenly, they like you more just for petting a cat.”

Read fiction by Marta Jiménez Serrano:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/buddy/

Six Stories Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“He memorized pi to nine decimal places—3.141592654—and then he squared that. Another trick he did was he typed in this number that, when he turned the calculator upside-down, it spelled BOOBIES.”

Read six new stories by Paul Maliszewski on R&R:

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Slathingering Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I didn’t have anything, really, besides this harrowing anti-life and lightweight clerical job that I escaped to five days a week, smiling and befuddled, in order to escape my cramped, depressing apartment.”

Read new fiction by David Nutt on R&R:

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Ten Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“UNCLE

jungle

DAUGHTER

doctor”

Read ten new poems by Craig Dworkin on R&R:

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“When I went into the fridge next, I took a cucumber. I drank a glass of water. I read five pages of a book. I held a plank for seventy-three seconds.”

Read three new stories by Hannah Applebaum on R&R:

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Two Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Just one thing more I promise.
Do you have rain too? Drainpipes and waterfalls?
(Did you tell me already?)”

Read two new poems by Charles North on R&R, the poet that James Schuyler called “the most stimulating poet of his generation.”

www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...

Skittles Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I’m always happy when people return their pizzas, that’s my dinner. I basically eat pizza every night. Albert Einstein ate the same thing every day, and never changed his clothes, and that’s why he was so smart.”

Read new fiction by Dallas Campos on R&R:

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Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Same poet,
more in focus

historically competent
with pretty words

rarely short-tempered,
5 foot 6

aggressively interested
in football

but that was
always true.”

Read four new poems by Isaac Jarnot:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“eBay collectors
spend thousands on dollar bills
with printing errors”

Read three new poems by Tom Snarsky (@tomsnarsky.bsky.social) on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

Princess Idiot Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Jenny’s misfortunes were more or less about how she came into the world. Mine were about wanting to get out of it.”

Read new fiction by Grace Byron (@emotrophywife.bsky.social) on R&R:

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Valedictorian Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I can’t decide what I want to be. Right now, I am becoming more careful with myself. I eat green foods. I’m dating around, but never stay out later than nine. Mom and Dad love me for being smart for so long.”

Read new fiction by Jasey Roberts on R&R:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“The sea monsters committed suicide in the mountains.

There are no sea monsters in the world anymore.

That’s why he grew up

to work for Amazon.”

Read three new poems by Yuyi Chen on R&R:

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Léo Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Because I've been wallowing too long. And now, in a stranger's apartment, happiness reveals itself to be an obese cat, and a woman from Alsace.”

Read new fiction by Steve Anwyll on R&R:

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NAÏVE AND SENTIMENTAL POETRY Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“my little mother, my little father
in the morning when the sun is new
my father’s village on my head
feeding me, shaking with laughter
i smell them like beer in the night time”

Read new poetry by Leo Dunsker:

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As It Pass'd Me Flying By Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“The common denominator was the impression that something had happened to each person, maybe at once, maybe over the course of decades. An event or simply an idea. An emotion. Something painful or unforgettable or both.”

Read new fiction by Angela Ma:

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Greyhound Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“She was still thinking about the King James Bible, thinking there had been an error in the translation of the Latin, no, Hebrew. The English loved their Greyhounds so much they wrote them into the past.”

Read new fiction by Mitchell Galloway:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Why bother writing so much that your own writing doesn’t recognise you? If you mean to get everyone to publish you, you know how many people you’ll keep busy working for how many decades?”

Read three new poems by Ouyang Yu:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I want you to be happy
like a man wants to live with his wife
in neo-liberal derangement
How she might feel about it is another poem”

Read three new poems by David Larsen:

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Great White Shark Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“And then the waterfalls are nice. They’re nice the way these things tend to be nice: they’re pretty and two minutes later you don’t know what to do with them.”

Read a short story by Samuel Solleiro, translated from the Galician by Jacob Rogers:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/grea...

Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I thought the duration of human lives
stacked up in a row and you could go back a century
quite quickly if you only remembered
a few lives would send you back to Rome”

Read four poems by Hannah Piette on R&R:

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The Day is Done Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

To celebrate his birthday today, June 6th, we are happy to share a never-before-published short story by Stephen Dixon.

Read “The Day is Done” on R&R:

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Death Trip Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Lawson feels that he is in a kind of place he’s never been, a place with dark spaces above, below, to the left and right, front and back, kind of closing in.”

Read new fiction by Clyde Edgerton on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/deat...