Fiction Pick of the Week: "Guardian"
The reappearance of an adult woman's imaginary friend from childhood.
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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Stuff"
A terminally ill journalist deals with a variety of setbacks.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Bird (on Back)"
A couple deals with animal complications, unhappiness, and terminal illness.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "This Bridge"
Scenes from a crumbling marriage, a friendship, a life in the painful present.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "April 5, 1991"
Scenes from a hideout for disaffected teenagers.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Stage from Behind"
Secular crises of two workers at a religious camp.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "How To Fall In Love"
Lessons for dating and dying.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Gravity"
A lonely young man fumbles toward love and acceptance, with disastrous results.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "E Ticket"
An examination of teenage lust and hierarchies on a trip to Disneyland.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Fable"
Life problems imagined as fantasies.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Expatriate"
A woman picks up her father's ashes at a funeral home.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "What Will Make It Last"
Unspoken issues grip a couple's dinner along the Mississippi River.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Gory Special"
A backyard wrestling match; an examination of different young lives.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Returning"
A woman's dead father appears at a farmer's market.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Plans"
Dolls and complicated gender dynamics.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Step In"
A mysterious stone and the complexities of grief.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Burglar"
The real-time intersection of race, crime, reality, and entertainment.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Let All the Restless Creatures Go"
A story of medical ailments, family dynamics, and conservation work.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Simcoe Furriers"
A taxidermist's life gradually spins out of control.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "She Wants, She Gets"
A contemporary fairy tale of transformations and time.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Tragic Tale of the Baron and His Wife"
A story of blame.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Elephant Man"
A young girl uses unusual coping mechanisms after her father's death.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Corpseless Shrouds"
A woman recalls an endless lifetime of near-death experiences.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "William and His Woman Friends"
A man's friendships with various women reveal psychological and philosophical complexities.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Mother's Day"
Mother's Day triggers a wealth of memories and characters, past and present.
