Browsing Tag fiction

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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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  Where Things Are Made

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

  By Tera Joy Cole
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  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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  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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  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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  The Discarded

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

  By Linda Boroff
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  Tea

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

  By Scott Marengo
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  Hummers

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

  By Amy Gottfried
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  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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  Op. 49

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

  By Matthew Baker
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  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
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  Britney

  "Stood there in the broken glass, head shaved, teeth set, great blazing spear poised in her hands, she sort of realized she was dancing, even then."

  By Derrick Martin-Campbell