Brian Oliu is originally from New Jersey and currently teaches at the University of Alabama, where he is the Associate Director of the Slash Pine Press internship. He is the author of So You Know It’s Me (Tiny Hardcore Press, 2011) a series of Craigslist Missed Connections, Level End (Origami Zoo Press, 2012), a chapbook based on videogame boss battles, Leave Luck to Heaven, an ode to 8-bit videogames, and i/o (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015), a memoir in the form of a computer virus. “Mile Zero,” is from a memoir-in-progress.
The cabinet for the game is a large imposing thing when you are young—a television screen larger than the one you have in the comfort of your own home, yourself on the tips of your toes so that you can reach the controls. When the game is released you are nine-years-old. You are big for your age. You already know… Read more →
0.0 This is the essence. This is the thing. 0.1 There is no way to do this except through. There is no way to start this without starting first: you cannot know how to run these miles if you have not run—there is no imagining your toenails falling off after purchasing ill-fitting running shoes, your feet sliding from left to… Read more →