Fiction
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Fiction, Essays & More
Au Revoir, Ma Vie
Floyd Skloot
Jacques Goldman didn’t mind forgetting. There was plenty he was ready to forget. For starters, Goldman wouldn’t have objected to losing...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Mexican Honeymoon
Terese Svoboda
Edgy dogs tap their toenails beneath the staircase in the courtyard. He flaps his napkin at one, Caffay o-lay!, ordering in sight of the half-ruined...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Model Short Story
On "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” is beautifully written, with a touch that one might best describe as delicate
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Fiction, Essays & More
Kosciusko Bridge
Terese Svoboda
Edgy dogs tap their toenails beneath the staircase in the courtyard. He flaps his napkin at one, Caffay o-lay!, ordering in sight of the half-ruined...
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Fiction, Essays & More
L'Odysée
Frederic Tuten
Then I made me way into the tottering house itself and found it all in shambles. A clothesline freighted with frilly red underwear, not mine...
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The Consultant
Catherynne M. Valente
She walks into my life legs first, a long drink of water in the desert of my thirties. Her shoes are red; her eyes are green
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Bloodweed
Robley Wilson
Grandfather Chandler says God made only two kinds of bloodweed: the stiff grass with greenish-purple flowers that grows wild in the ditches hereabouts...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Wedding Day
Robley Wilson
It was Benjamin Howard’s wedding day, the second of his life and, he hoped, the last. Annette, the bride-to-be, was asleep in the bed he...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Model Short Story
On "Salvation" by Langston Hughes
Matthew Sharpe
“Salvation” is the third chapter of Langston Hughes’s memoir The Big Sea, but this two-page tour de force of prose is also a compact...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Model Short Story
On "Sweethearts" by Richard Ford
Richard Ford
Yes, we could have played it safe and inaugurated this series with something by Chekhov or Gogol or by someone like Alice Munro, who writes nothing...