An addict's relationship causes various traumas.

Grown siblings, relationships, and ways of seeing.

An unlikely Army wife tries to come to terms with her husband’s calling.

Kross cuts through the moans and shouts from off-camera: “Someone go wide!” She’s telling the cameramen to make sure they are adequately capturing the reverse gang bang of Ferrara—the love of her life.

A need for money causes interpersonal confusion.

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

The complexities of aging and desire.

A mystical stone guides a woman through her life.

A possible visitor from the future; the upheaval of time and logic.

On calling off a wedding, and studying whooping cranes.

Scenes and thoughts from an affair.

An unexpected visitor—a camel—helps a woman cope with personal and political turmoil.

A depressed man attempts a home improvement project.

A painting ignites complex jealousy.

The aftermath of divorcing a witch.

An arrangement of convenience in early 20th century Alaska.

A European vacation, a quietly crumbling marriage.

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.