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2020s

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Rhiannon"

A teenage girl's mysterious disappearance(s).

Sophie Kearing The Lumiere Review Dec 2020 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Mercy"

A troubled man's complex acts of mercy,

David Byron Queen New World Writing Dec 2020 10min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Z"

Sessions with a zombie therapist.

Julián Herbert Electric Lit Dec 2020 15min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Saffron Farm"

A young lover grapples with arrangements and quarantine.

Claire Rudy Foster Split Lip Magazine Nov 2020 15min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Black Rocks"

A modern woman returns to the mysterious village of her childhood.

Cheryl Pappas Juked Magazine Nov 2020 10min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Good Boy"

Hustling and sexual identity in Lagos.

Eloghosa Osunde Paris Review Oct 2020 20min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "To Keep the Ghosts Away"

Two Southern neighbors form a layered bond.

Frederica Morgan Davis storySouth Oct 2020 35min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Toxins"

Ailments and cures in a small town.

McKenna Marsden Pithead Chapel Oct 2020 15min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Townie"

Details of a quarter-life crisis.

Sarah Walker BULL Magazine Sep 2020 10min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Haunted"

A Black writer haunts a fussy editor.

Walter Mosley Lit Hub Sep 2020 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Mighty Oak"

A hockey player's life spirals out of control.

Jeff W. Bens Guernica Sep 2020 10min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "The First Expedition"

A trip to the moon is not what it seems.

Amy Shearn Human Parts Aug 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Smoke at the End of the World"

Construction work, measured in bad habits.

Dustin M. Hoffman DIAGRAM Aug 2020 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Green Frog"

An artist struggles with family loss and complexities.

Gina Chung Split Lip Magazine Aug 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Sweet Scoundrel"

A double life across two cultures.

Diana Xin Electric Lit Aug 2020 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Parks and Wildlife"

An encounter with a bear opens a strange world of self-discovery.

Joshua Shaw Third Point Press Aug 2020 Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Heirlooms"

Cultures clash when a man bonds with his boyfriend's mother.

Bryan Washington New Yorker Aug 2020 25min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "And It Goes Running"

The summer of a teenage werewolf.

Caroline Diorio Joyland Magazine Jul 2020 15min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Boys to Men"

A man's relationship to help and addictions.

Shannon McLeod Maudlin House Jul 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Packed White Spaces"

A friend's party brings up sad memories and introspection.

Christopher Gonzalez BULL Magazine Jul 2020 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Even If All Fall Away, I Will Not"

A queer Black man's chance encounters.

Brandon Taylor them. Jul 2020 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Blacktop Wasteland [Excerpt]"

A high stakes drag race turns dangerous.

S.A. Cosby Jul 2020 20min Permalink

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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Grief"

Complex grieving rituals in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.

Scholastique Mukasonga The New Yorker Jun 2020 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Jesus's Cheese"

A murdered drug dealer; a neighborhood of colorful personalities.

James McBride O: The Oprah Magazine Jun 2020 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Vanishing Half [Excerpt]"

In the 1960s, a white subdivision prepares for the arrival of a black family.

Brit Bennett The Cut Jun 2020 10min Permalink

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