Charting the crossroads of obsession and the back alleys of eroticism, Black Clock 17 is a topography of forbidden passions. The afterglow of an affair leaves a woman to satisfy a more illicit yearning in Dana Spiotta’s “Watch,” a group of teen orgiasts converge in Tom McCarthy’s “Pyramid Party” to recreate the sexual humiliations of Abu Ghraib, and in Aimee Bender’s “Vigilante,” a young female police captain intrudes on the psychodramas of strangers to enforce the laws of the heart…
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Issue— #17
- Arielle GreenbergPastoral: I Lay on the Shore Naked this Morning at Dawn and Thought Again about Submission
- Tom McCarthhyPyramid Party
- Dana SpiottaWatch
- Jay NeugeborenFor an Hour of Your Time
- Cecil CastellucciHimself, Multiplied
- Tara IsonMultiple Choice
- Scott BradfieldThe Man Who Couldn't Give It Away
- Andrew NichollsString
- Antonia CraneYellow
- Ryan BloomNaked as a Window
- Jeffrey MoskowitzDecals
- Clare Marie MyersJesus, Etc.
- Arielle GreenbergPastoral: In the Pines
- Arielle GreenbergPastoral: Homesteading
- Henry BeanThe Sleep Deeps' Annual Photo
- Saehee ChoBusiness Trip
- Katie RyderThe Song and the Story
- Joe MilazzoMonk and Nica
- Erin Brooks WorleyI Address You
- Dayna DunneAt Arms
- Doug MatusSon of Perdition
- Aimee BenderVigilante
- Arielle GreenbergPastoral: Altered Animals