Fiction Pick of the Week: "The International Congress for Kids Whose Dads Are Commie Draft Dodgers"
Children engage in their own democratic process.
2010s
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Destroy All Monsters"
Scenes from a local music venue.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Dead Weight"
The lives of a mortician mother and a wayward veteran stepfather.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "North Country, Early Morning"
Lost love and a robbery.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Fire Season"
Two friends contend with mistakes both past and present.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Mae and Me"
After her husband's disappearance, a woman bonds with her landlady.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Wait Time"
A woman copes with her husband's terminal illness.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Confessions of the Lovestruck"
The rise and fall of a band in public and behind closed doors.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Last Night"
A woman examines her suicidal past.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Mucci"
A European vacation, a quietly crumbling marriage.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Stephanie Loves Stephanie"
A botched tattoo; alternative therapy.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Five Stages of Writing a Story"
A father's death, the nature of stories.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Bound"
An adopted woman's brushes with fortunes and family ties.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "I'm Sorry Your Daughter Got Eaten by a Cougar"
Hauntings in the aftermath of an animal attack.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The King of South Phoenix"
The intersection of climate change and reality TV.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Under the Wave"
A mother and child navigate life after a natural disaster.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "My Old College Friend"
Past and present intermingle in various meetings and revelations with an old friend.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Sakura Trip"
A young lesbian poet's confused love.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Actor"
Encounters and interactions with a semi-famous star.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Bottomless Sounds"
The stark realities of nature and nuture.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Exact Same Prize" (reprint)
A Longform Fiction reprint: The complexities of a grandmother's wish to die.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Ways in Which He Furnished His Apartment"
A life in objects.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Ringing True"
The lives of a bell maker, a beekeeper, and their observant son.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Superman"
A Las Vegas hustler hits his lowest point.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "When the Rain Comes"
With upheaval looming, a college tennis player considers his love, his training, and his own agency.
