You can find second-year MFA fictioneer Tom Luckie among the e-pages of the debut issue of online lit mag Atlas & Alice. His hybrid flash piece “Works Cited from Our Family Vacation to Colonial Williamsburg” is published alongside the likes of Sam Martone and Robert Vivian. Luckie does a lot of work with form, and this particular piece is a charming, funny, slightly violent glimpse into the classic American family roadtrip– condensed into a properly-formatted Works Cited page. Read it here.

Atlas & Alice is a gently experimental lit mag that takes its name from two Large Hadron Collider experiments. Its editors are especially friendly to science-y work, prose poems, flash fiction, or any kind of literature that exists at an intersection: “that kind of intersection–in the case of our title, between literature and science–that interests us.  We like things that meet, conjoin, dance, rebound, explode. Bring two things together; see what happens.”

On a personal note, I’d just like to share how hard it is to not write the headline, “Luckie gets lucky,” because that not only has unfortunate connotations, but also implies rather rudely that Tom’s piece isn’t fantastic, just lucky. His name invites all sorts of puns, but it really is just a well-concealed trap where wordplay goes to die. Anyway, give Tom’s hand a shake if you happen upon him around town.