Browsing Tag fiction

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  Fiction

  Conjunct

  "She wasn’t one for icebreakers. I didn’t argue because she’d be dead soon besides."

  By Eric Brewster
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  Fiction

  The Wasp

  "When Luis moved back it felt like time travel."

  By Elle Nash
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  The Warmest Color

  "Her: Mona, the girl with pointy front teeth that bore an eerie resemblance to fangs: an artist; an aspiring mortician; an ongoing problem."

  By Sam Eichner
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  Head of a Snowman

  "Didn’t people know by now that nobody was better at punishing Ellis than Ellis?"

  By Kevin Magruder
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  Fiction

  Tanuki

  "He saw his reflection in Tre’s shades--aviators, white mask--they looked as though they were about to rob a bank."

  By Jeff Chon
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  The Man from Yorba Linda

  “The President of the United States is calling–will you accept the charges?”

  By Sarah Marshall
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  Bloodline

  “Like my mother before me, and her mother before her, I have loved my share of men who are not named Joseph.”

  By Kerry Cullen
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  Remains

  “Dear Usurper, You will find a dozen letters in this house. Each letter, each comma, each sentence, each period on the page is a curse.”

  By Alexandra Ford
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  Fiction

  Another Name for Stargazing

  "The first time her father came back from the psych ward, he was given tasks to occupy his eyes."

  By Kristen Arnett
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  Fiction

  The Blue Tiger

  "She guessed that’s what love was--making each other feel bad on purpose and then being sorry about it."

  By Rhianna Reinmuth
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  Fiction

  Technology

  "Without the benefit of the diagram, you might just start clapping, creating tiny explosions that spread myriad pustules of anti-bacterial hand soap all over..."

  By Doug Weaver
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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