Fiction Pick of the Week: "Dropping Dimes"
A basketball player cares for his addicted sister.
2010s
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Having a Catch With Dad Is Much Harder Than Field of Dreams Makes It Out To Be"
Baseball and complicated father/son relationships.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Drive South"
Two friends wait out a storm in Waffle House on their way to uncertainty.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Bespoke"
The pros and cons of computerized boyfriend models; reposted in honor of the late fabulist Zachary Doss.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Sliver of Blue Ocean"
A beached whale creates a ripple effect in a small fishing village.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Whiskey & Ribbons [Excerpt]"
Family dynamics both real and imagined.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Railroad Blues"
Small town loneliness, memories, and mistakes.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Love Story In a Movie Theater Where a Loud Man is Smoking a Cigarette"
A theater as the scene of escalating events.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Voiceless"
The intersection of life and social media in the future.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Stanville"
The interactions of inmates and a teacher at a women's prison.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Silk"
Two girls connected by friendship and strange magic.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Good Looking Out"
The psychology, interactions, and sadness of a fringe NBA player.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Re-Stitched"
Two sisters; a grotesque religious ritual.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Suggestible Hauntings"
The lives of professional haunters.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Feeling You Want"
A child's obsession with slime; a fractured family.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Basement Miracles"
Observations from an AA meeting.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Poisoned Apple"
A woman fights against various forms of trespassing.
Fiction: "Revere"
A writer prepares for the possibility of meeting a lost lover.
Fiction: "For All My Strangers"
War, family histories, and place.
Fiction: Twelve Brief Anecdotes about the King of Birds
A peculiar obsession turns into a complicated downfall.
Fiction: "Do You Think You'll Come Home?"
Illness, family, and the weight of history.
Ficion: "Eugene OR"
A teenager faces a series of escalating life challenges.
Fiction: "Holograms"
Three teenagers, their futures, the concept of alternate realities.
Fiction: "Other Names"
Painful memories and strange reactions plague a man's series of online dates.
Fiction: "The End of Love"
New love, lost love, and origins.
