Browsing Category Fiction

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  Fiction

  In Flagrante Delicto

  "What would it be like to fuck a man who finds such horrors beautiful?"

  By Jonathan Papernick
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  Fiction

  How to Clean a Dollhouse

  "The child-sized foundation will shudder at the feel of your fingertips on its spine."

  By Betty Capot
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  Fiction

  Where Things Are Made

  "Hopefully, his new girlfriend’s towels were cheap and smelled of mildew."

  By Tera Joy Cole
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  Fiction

  Beating

  "Betty worried what type of conversations and memories might have bubbled to the surface in a bar in the hands of her stoic husband."

  By Joe Ponce
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  Fiction

  Postal Worker and Housewife

  “She bends to pick up the envelope, and something about the elongation of her right thigh makes Sarah Wheeler pause."

  By Nellie Hermann
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  Fiction

  Skies

  "They tell me that I waited in another room with the babysitter until my father made it home to the body."

  By Laura Herbek
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  Fiction

  The Discarded

  "These Silicon Valley firms sometimes self-destruct, I am discovering, much like supernovae."

  By Linda Boroff
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  Fiction

  Tea

  "Feeling sorry's an ugly color no matter who's wearing it."

  By Scott Marengo
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  Fiction

  Hummers

  "That beak dips down onto my shirtsleeve, once, twice, three times. He’s drinking my shirt."

  By Amy Gottfried
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  Fiction

  Ida Abandons Ship

  "Sometimes, the nice young man from that other TV show on the same cable network comes by."

  By Clara Chow
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  Fiction

  Op. 49

  "Koji’s mohawk, Dim felt, was misleading."

  By Matthew Baker
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  Fiction

  One-Hundred Percent Risk

  "Isadora’s father had been an acting teacher, so at first it had been hard to distinguish his changes from performance."

  By Cheryl Klein