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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Vice & Hurricanes

I knocked at every registered address on the island that ever voted Democrat. And with it, experienced the culture of Galveston like accidentally swallowing the ...

by Robin Doody | July 31, 2022July 26, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations

BOOK REVIEW: THE FORGERY

Art doesn’t just provide discrete instances of ways of seeing the world, alternative encounters with it into which we can enter while looking at a ...

by Ben Philipps | July 28, 2022July 29, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Teach

So the teaching associate, we called him “Teach,” but we meant no disrespect by that, it’s just that the name sort of fit because he’s ...

by Larry Smith | July 24, 2022July 7, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Once a Smoker, Always a Smoker

“I don’t know why you wanted to meet here of all places.” She said it in a voice of perfect exasperation that was all ...

by Travis Cohen | July 17, 2022June 30, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, short story

BOOK REVIEW: HERE BE ICEBERGS

Katya Adaui sexamines the tangled knot of everyday ties that bind us – for better or worse. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: HERE ...

by Jennifer Brough | July 14, 2022July 6, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Promise

In his mind Harold prepared a speech. If Maggie was going to fire him for stealing food, well, OK, it might’ve happened but he’d never ...

by Charles Holdefer | July 10, 2022June 30, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations

BOOK REVIEW: THE MEMBRANES

In the 22nd century, humanity has scorched the earth. Attempts to undo the catastrophic results of global warming have proved futile, and a new kind ...

by Eleanor Keisman | July 7, 2022July 18, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Tunneling

Weasel is following me, panting, on hands and knees, through a passage we call Route 66, even though it’s only a hundred feet long, the ...

by Richard Holeton | July 3, 2022June 30, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Cat Sitting, Editing, and the Light Behind the Curtain

Paul pulled his sedan over to the curb in front of the house. The sedan’s battered engine rattled ominously as Paul shifted into reverse. Paul, ...

by Spencer Linford | June 26, 2022June 24, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Reviews, Uncategorised

BOOK REVIEW: SOLO DANCE

In ‘Solo Dance’, by Li Kotomi, Japan – Asia’s most advanced country – is described as a “queer desert.” Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: ...

by Kevin McGeary | June 23, 2022June 26, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Family Vacation

Be quiet. You’ve been living in a strange house. It’s a sunny afternoon, but Mom’s upstairs with a stomach ache and Dad’s mapping a route. ...

by Rachel Ephraim | June 19, 2022June 8, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Road to Methuselah Spring

A blizzard swept through New England on the night Gretchen and I arrived, throwing our marriage into question and quickening a slow process of separation ...

by Tim Griffith | June 12, 2022June 8, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THREE

Perrin has a beautiful talent for capturing the atmosphere of small-town France Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THREE

by Andy Charman | June 9, 2022May 27, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Dedicated Dancers of The Greater Oaks Retirement Community

A New Yorker finds solace in an unexpected place in Florida. Continue Reading The Dedicated Dancers of The Greater Oaks Retirement Community

by Anna Dempsey | June 5, 2022May 31, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Insomnia

Even after all these years, he couldn’t believe it’d happened while he was asleep. Curled up under the sheets, knees tucked. He never heard the ...

by VINCENT CZYZ | June 3, 2022June 10, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Seduction

He has begged her not to go home yet. And though she has rejected his suggestion of the dessert wine and shaken her head at ...

by Andrea Bianchi | May 29, 2022May 27, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Mardi Gras

FAT TUESDAY I’m six or seven, and we’re standing on Canal Street, my dad, mom and sister, who’s too young to remember any of this. ...

by Louis Gallo | May 27, 2022May 13, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

The Staten Island Hanger

We knew about the Staten Island Hanger, everyone did, sitting on its own on a large lot near the New York Harbor, like you could ...

by Gil Kaplan | May 20, 2022May 19, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Florida, 1993

They flew into Miami at night and decided to go straight to the hotel. They were both hungry but too tired to look for a ...

by Leah Browning | May 13, 2022May 11, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Gather the Tribe

“If we want to study history, why don’t we just study chimpanzees? They are our history. When a pack of chimps kills another ape, they ...

by Benjamin Wolfe | May 8, 2022May 6, 2022

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