Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Christmas Miracle"
A hallucinatory, grotesque family Christmas.
2010s
Fiction Pick of the Week: "These Bad Things"
A family camping trip; the effects of legends.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Only One Who Could Ever Teach Me"
Widowers form a bond.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Only Orange"
Grown siblings, relationships, and ways of seeing.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "My Mother, An Ouroboros"
A mother and son navigate hope and setbacks.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Appendaged"
A neighbor's strange procedure; a couple's disintegrating marriage.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Stupid Zebra"
A hockey father's escalating faultsthe.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Juan, Actually"
A night of various crises and personal reflection.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Ruins, 2005"
A student navigates unexpected connections and the threat of terrorism.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Deficit"
A need for money causes interpersonal confusion.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Take It"
A homeless teen stumbles upon a strange house party.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Girl Gangs of Pacific Avenue"
A girl gang rules over a neighborhood.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Lost Day"
A violinist's intersection of talent, music, and desire.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Editor"
Murderous readers and a house of memory.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Floating"
The complexities of aging and desire.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Old School"
A father struggles with old and new parenting techniques.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Daughter's Guide to Lavender"
A refugee's daughter examines identity and spaces.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Green Bridge"
A girl spends time with her mentally unstable mother.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Stone"
A mystical stone guides a woman through her life.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "No Matter"
A possible visitor from the future; the upheaval of time and logic.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "History of Girls"
Dead and living girls communicate in the aftermath of a disaster.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Strangers No More"
A scary proposal sends a husband spiraling.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Who Are You"
Sexual and personal growth intertwine.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Decisions"
Current near-misses, haunting memories.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Four Crônicas"
Examinations of literature, philosophy, and the self.
