This is an excerpt from Brian Oliu’s “Psycho Mantis And The Montreal Screwjob: The Twilight Of Metafiction And The Reascension Of The Montaignian Attempt” from Ma[...]

My first date was to go see Scream at the Bridgewater Mall in lovely central New Jersey.  I was fourteen years old and knew little to nothing about anything, let alone girls, date [...]

The desserts that you eat are contributing to the world’s demise.  Your town, safe from acts of baked good terrorism in the past, is considering the opening of a cupcake bakery fra[...]

BRIAN OLIU:  BIOGRAPHY Brian Oliu is originally from New Jersey, which is known to many as having the most intricate and/or worst highway system in the world.  Oliu remembers a jok[...]

I’ve always joked that if I were in a band our first release would be titled ‘The Christmas Album’.  Of course, the album would have nothing to do with Christmas—although in interv[...]

Dukes & Duchesses: Last Monday was my birthday.  I turned 28 years old.  This means that I was born on November 22, 1982.  Six months and one day prior, Prince William Arthur P[...]

In an e-mail exchange between my friend Elizabeth and I, she recited a quote from her workshop professor, the poet Maxine Kumin:  “when you publish something, you give it to the ag[...]

Seven years ago, I was a resident of the Kingdom of Belgium, a small country below sealevel made of chocolate.  The Low Countries (i.e. the Netherlands and Belgium) had gained thei[...]

The UAEDFL Loses By Disqualification Yet Retains The Belt Note:  After one too many e-mails to the University of Alabama’s English Department Listserv, an e-mail was sent (to the l[...]

Note: Brian Oliu is the Commissioner of the University of Alabama English Department Football League, located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Here, Oliu revisits an e-mail sent to the Engl[...]