Fiction
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Fiction, Essays & More
Inland Sea
Stuart Dybek
Horizon, a clothesline strung between crabapples. A forgotten dress, that far away, bleached invisible by a succession of summer days until a...
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I Am a Knife
Roxane Gay
My husband is a hunter.I am a knife.Last deer season, he took me on a hunt with him. At four in the morning, he shook me awake
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Death Be a Hot Fudge Sundae
Merrill Joan Gerber
Three babies were born to me in five years. It seemed, when I was young, the only worthwhile thing to do, making those sturdy, well-designed pieces...
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Hacia Teotitlán
Dagoberto Gilb
The last time Ramiro Areyzaga was in Mexico was so long ago it was more like a fairy tale. That was Coyoacán, which is Mexico City but which...
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A Paranormal Romance
Douglas Glover
I was supposed to meet Zoe for lunch at a chic Parisian restaurant she had discovered on the Internet, a crucial rendezvous during which I intended...
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Chet Baker's Son
Brandon Hobson
I left Chicago and returned to Dallas when my mother tried to overdose. She’d tried it before, usually with pills, but this time they hospitalized...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Model Short Story
On "Brass" by Joy Williams
Christine Schutt
Aurora, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston, all sites of rampage killings that left four or more dead. Inspired by just such mayhem, “Brass,”...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Model Short Story
On "Miss Grief" by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Anne Boyd Rioux
When Constance Fenimore Woolson wrote “Miss Grief,” shortly after her arrival in Europe in late 1879, she was, unlike her eponymous...
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Hum
Ann Hood
Todd invited the Korns—all of them—for a visit at the beach. Not just dinner, but to stay overnight. Laura was finishing the border of a 2000...
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Klodt's Horses
Mikhail Iossel
One day, many years ago, in another lifetime, a friend told me that the sculptor Peter Klodt, author of the famed four-part Horse-Tamer composition...