The Militant Grammarian

09/21/2022

Get lost in this surreal narrative by M.C.G.

Former advertising executive Egvard Yohannsen forgets (for the second time this week) the impulse to end his life.

08/31/2022

Great new story today by Elena Malkov

“They used to call me the degenerated hag / Or was it a degenerate in rags? / Well it doesn’t matter anymore / Because they were all right all along.”

07/13/2022

Today's story: a spellbinding stream-of-consciousness narrative from D. W. White themilitantgrammarian.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/mad…

Madeleine stood out in the still night air, the tree ruffling its leaves around for something to do.

06/01/2022

Read this hilarious work of absurdism by Jesse Hilson! https://themilitantgrammarian.wordpress.com/2022/06/01/noah-turbot-photographer/

Noah Turbot has been infused with William Burroughs Wilhelm Reich-decocted or**sm theory, and he overdosed on dextromethorphan which he burned the chemical diagram of at Bill W.’s grave in Massachu…

05/17/2022

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The Militant Grammarian is named for “The Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts,” a fictional English usage-obsessed organization depicted in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. We’re a non-profit volunteer journal devoted to bringing the best experimental fiction to the web.

05/11/2022

Check out this new piece by Ann Morgan—the exact sort of thing we had in mind when we launched this magazine themilitantgrammarian.wordpress.com/2022/05/11/tra…

First, let me make it clear that I write this under sufferance. Had it been left to me, the final words you encountered in this book would have been the heroine’s last shriek as she hurled her newb…

05/04/2022

Read this bittersweet story of love and loss by Stuart Ross

It’s hard to leave you. It always is. It’s hard to believe in us, now that we don’t exist. Love means more than life, love also means work. Love means the things we do together in the daytime, not …

04/27/2022

Check out this mind-bending piece of found fiction by Robert Fromberg. themilitantgrammarian.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/com…

by Robert Fromberg Thoma Bravo To Acquire Significant Majority Interest In Centrify, The Leading Next-generation Identity & Access Management Vendor San Francisco and Santa Clara, Calif. – July…

04/15/2022

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Submission Guidelines Fiction submissions of up to 8000 words may be attached as .docx, .doc, or .pdf files and sent to [email protected]. Standard formatting rules apply (12 pt. fo…

04/14/2022