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Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Dropping Dimes"

A basketball player cares for his addicted sister.

Chloe N. Clark BULL Apr 2018 10min Permalink

Fiction

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.

Patrick Walczy Hobart Apr 2018 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Drive South"

Two friends wait out a storm in Waffle House on their way to uncertainty.

Sarah Boudreau Longleaf Review Apr 2018 15min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Bespoke"

The pros and cons of computerized boyfriend models; reposted in honor of the late fabulist Zachary Doss.

Zachary Doss Puerto del Sol Aug 2017 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Sliver of Blue Ocean"

A beached whale creates a ripple effect in a small fishing village.

Benito Vergara Atticus Review Mar 2018 10min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Whiskey & Ribbons [Excerpt]"

Family dynamics both real and imagined.

Leesa Cross-Smith Lit Hub Mar 2018 10min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Railroad Blues"

Small town loneliness, memories, and mistakes.

Jill Talbot Little Fiction Mar 2018 10min Permalink

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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.

Daniel Paul Necessary Fiction Feb 2018 Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Voiceless"

The intersection of life and social media in the future.

Emily Smith Hobart Feb 2018 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Stanville"

The interactions of inmates and a teacher at a women's prison.

Rachel Kushner New Yorker Feb 2018 35min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Silk"

Two girls connected by friendship and strange magic.

Gail Aronson The Offing Feb 2018 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Good Looking Out"

The psychology, interactions, and sadness of a fringe NBA player.

Richard Chiem The Fanzine Jan 2018 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Re-Stitched"

Two sisters; a grotesque religious ritual.

Julie C. Day Split Lip Magazine Jan 2018 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Suggestible Hauntings"

The lives of professional haunters.

Kristen Arnett Triquarterly Jan 2018 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Feeling You Want"

A child's obsession with slime; a fractured family.

Sara Lippmann Atticus Review Jan 2018 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Basement Miracles"

Observations from an AA meeting.

R.S. Wynn Pithead Chapel Jan 2018 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Poisoned Apple"

A woman fights against various forms of trespassing.

Katie Welch Split Lip Magazine Dec 2017 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction: "Revere"

A writer prepares for the possibility of meeting a lost lover.

Esmé Weijun Wang Lenny Letter Dec 2017 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction: "For All My Strangers"

War, family histories, and place.

Keegan Lester Hobart Dec 2017 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction: Twelve Brief Anecdotes about the King of Birds

A peculiar obsession turns into a complicated downfall.

Chris Schahfer Anastamos Nov 2017 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction: "Do You Think You'll Come Home?"

Illness, family, and the weight of history.

Angela Qian Catapult Nov 2017 15min Permalink

Fiction

Ficion: "Eugene OR"

A teenager faces a series of escalating life challenges.

Mary Breaden Vol 1. Brooklyn Nov 2017 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction: "Holograms"

Three teenagers, their futures, the concept of alternate realities.

Robert James Russell Little Fiction Nov 2017 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction: "Other Names"

Painful memories and strange reactions plague a man's series of online dates.

Chloe N. Clark Cosmonauts Avenue Oct 2017 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction: "The End of Love"

New love, lost love, and origins.

Ilene Raymond Rush Poydras Review Oct 2017 10min Permalink

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