The Promise That Tested My Parents Until the End
A couple, a caregiver, and a promise.
Relationships
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Townie"
Details of a quarter-life crisis.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Haunted"
A Black writer haunts a fussy editor.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Parks and Wildlife"
An encounter with a bear opens a strange world of self-discovery.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Heirlooms"
Cultures clash when a man bonds with his boyfriend's mother.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Boys to Men"
A man's relationship to help and addictions.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Root Bound"
A couple's attempt to create an offspring from nature.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Edie Bakes Cakes"
A troubled TV chef meets a mysterious creature.
A Love Letter to My Curmudgeonly Big Brother
Two brothers attempt to bond on a trek in the Cascades
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Out There"
A woman suspects her new boyfriend is less than human.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Boxes"
A new apartment; exercises in surrealism.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Request"
A young woman in a dead-end job searches for direction.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Twelfth Utopia"
An addict's relationship causes various traumas.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Only Orange"
Grown siblings, relationships, and ways of seeing.
Guns and Marriage
An unlikely Army wife tries to come to terms with her husband’s calling.
The 'Mess of Complexity' in Directing Your Porn Star Partner
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.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Deficit"
A need for money causes interpersonal confusion.
The Breakup Museum
Strangers want their past relationships witnessed, and other strangers come to Zagreb to witness them.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Floating"
The complexities of aging and desire.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Stone"
A mystical stone guides a woman through her life.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "No Matter"
A possible visitor from the future; the upheaval of time and logic.
The Crane Wife
On calling off a wedding, and studying whooping cranes.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Give Me a Love Song"
Scenes and thoughts from an affair.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Lawrence of Arabia"
An unexpected visitor—a camel—helps a woman cope with personal and political turmoil.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Pergola"
A depressed man attempts a home improvement project.
