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Fiction

Fiction

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

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Say, She Toy"

CW: racist language

A black android faces grave human racism.

Chesya Burke Apex Magazine Apr 2017 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "People"

Growing up indigenous in Detroit.

Ron Riekki jmww Journal May 2020 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Adam's Apple"

A first date; a viewing of a classic musical.

Gideon Jacobs Playboy May 2020 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Root Bound"

A couple's attempt to create an offspring from nature.

Olivia Bradley Third Point Press May 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "There Is No Baby In This Story"

An antique high chair; the complexities of parenting and growing.

Chelsea Sutton Pithead Chapel May 2020 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Edie Bakes Cakes"

A troubled TV chef meets a mysterious creature.

Susanna Crossman Berfrois Apr 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Always the Harvest"

A futuristic world of scavenging and anatomical harvesting.

Yoon Ha Lee Lightspeed Magazine Apr 2020 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Slake"

Encounters with a vampire, fraught with strange escalations.

Helen McClory The Rupture Apr 2020 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Poster"

A childhood poster catalyzes complex doubts about a marriage.

Weike Wang Gulf Coast Magazine Mar 2020 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Do I Amuse You?"

A troubled professor's obsession with "Goodfellas."

Salvatore Pane Always Crashing Mar 2020 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Out There"

A woman suspects her new boyfriend is less than human.

Kate Folk The New Yorker Mar 2020 25min

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Anniversary"

A husband tells his wife a strange, secret story.

Harris Lahti Hobart Mar 2020 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Lollie"

New neighbors meet, told from a unique point of view.

Judyth Emanuel Longleaf Review Mar 2020 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Important People of New Jersey"

A family stops at a Jersey travel plaza on the way to a New York medical center.

Jen Michalski Necessary Fiction Feb 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Boxes"

A new apartment; exercises in surrealism.

J.I. Daniels Juked Magazine Feb 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Request"

A young woman in a dead-end job searches for direction.

Jerilynn Aquino Passages North Feb 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Nobody Girl"

A flight attendant caught between various loves and worlds.

Hana Mason Little Fiction Feb 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Twelfth Utopia"

An addict's relationship causes various traumas.

Max Halper Pithead Chapel Feb 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "We Only Wanted Their Happiness"

Children with internet implants.

Alexander Weinstein Lit Hub Jan 2020 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "You Will Never Be Forgotten"

Surviving sexual assault in a rapidly digitized world.

Mary South The New Yorker Jan 2020 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "This is How the Fairy Queen Dies"

Childhood friends, escalating traumas.

Miranda Williams Menacing Hedge Jan 2020 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "For the Love of Dior"

A gay Costa Rican shopowner navigates family turmoil and political upheaval.

John Manuel Arias Barren Magazine Jan 2020 15min Permalink

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