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Chuck Murphy’s Last Run
Kevin Barry
“How could you give up the throb of urgent throttle and the surge of roaring power that tak...”
Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell
Robert G Penner
“An excerpt from Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell by Robert G Penner The train rattled...”
Kitchen Barbarians
Jason Kwon
““Kitchen Barbarians” by Jason Kwon The Lehman desk had been dead for six years, but still...”
A Very Safe Place
Rachel Heng
“No sooner did the words leave his mouth than the man’s eyelids fluttered open. “No . . . p...”
Narrow Escape
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The police lieutenant appeared to be writing down exactly what Gleb was telling him, but r...”
Dark Horse
Sarah Anderson
“At least once a day I press the Thought like a bruise, and if I don’t it eventually starts...”
Lost Child
Joyce Carol Oates
“It almost returned to Kit then—what this place was, and who was waiting for them inside.”
New Shoes
Hisham Matar
“My life in London, the life I had cobbled together with the barest of routines, grew thin...”
Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub
Helen Simpson
“A sense of impending doom—that was how Weary had described the feeling many people got, li...”
Swallows’ Nest
Tomoka Shibasaki
“The air outside was white—whether from rain, clouds, fog, or the spray thrown up by the ca...”
Floods
Scott McClanahan
“We were supposed to go to Rainelle for my birthday. It had been raining for a whole week,...”
Their Utopia
Brian Ma