A father's death, the nature of stories.

Past and present intermingle in various meetings and revelations with an old friend.

Encounters and interactions with a semi-famous star.

A Longform Fiction reprint: The complexities of a grandmother's wish to die.

A Chinese-American woman's past and present collide.

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

Family dynamics both real and imagined.

A theater as the scene of escalating events.

Strangers want their past relationships witnessed, and other strangers come to Zagreb to witness them.

The lives of professional haunters.

Observations from an AA meeting.

The pros and cons of computerized boyfriend models.

In the midst of devastation, a couple seeks answers from a mysterious figure.

A search for meaning through academics, cultural studies, and terrorism.

Product descriptions propel a complex relationship narrative.

An American wife's keen unhappiness on her European honeymoon.

A whale permeates a series of culture clashes.

A couple deals with animal complications, unhappiness, and terminal illness.

Secular crises of two workers at a religious camp.

Unspoken issues grip a couple's dinner along the Mississippi River.

College friends come together during a power failure and the onset of an ill-fated relationship.

A story of science, weirdness, and alternate realities.

A woman in an unhappy marriage stumbles toward change.

"Without turning the radio on, Hannah drove back into town and into the driveway of her house. She sat there in the car for a long while and ran through the drive with Tex over and over. She wanted to go back and stop herself from touching his leg. She wanted to go back and stop herself from driving there in the first place. She wanted to go back and stop the day from ever starting."

A newfound faith wreaks havoc on a relationship.

A postapocalyptic world, motherhood, and centaurs.

"The girls were born the day before the world ended. You had eighteen hours of bliss and then the satellites went out, and with them the systems that sent news around the world. An asteroid, you heard people say. Huddled in your darkened hospital bed, your daughter’s mouths so pink and empty. Like birds. One asteroid and then another, and another, and then so many more that no one could keep track. They pounded into the oceans and the hills. The shaking made the earthquakes come, and from them, the volcanoes. The oceans rose. The clouds that came in the wake of the asteroids were thick and hard, studded with cosmic ash."