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Lost Child
Joyce Carol Oates
“It almost returned to Kit then—what this place was, and who was waiting for them inside.”
Floods
Scott McClanahan
“We were supposed to go to Rainelle for my birthday. It had been raining for a whole week,...”
Mutter
Esther Yi
“I tell my mother that sometimes it feels like an emergency: she must know that no one else...”
Constellation
Andrea Bajani
“There was something absurd and distressing in that prelude to the domestic drama.”
Firstborn Immigrant Daughter
Taiye Selasi
“Your mother doesn’t want her daughter to be happy. Your mother wants her daughter to be im...”
A Private View
Douglas Stuart
““Oh, not another story about me,” she cried. “Another book about how I was the world’s wor...”
The Quiet House
Tessa Hadley
“What was the point of keeping all those secrets? Wasn’t your story wasted if nobody knew i...”
Aytaç
David Wingrave
“I don’t know how my father found out about the trip. We hadn’t spoken in almost a year whe...”
Enjoy the Break, Demons
Matthew Shen Goodman
“Your dad never said he wanted a boy. He says he never said it too. He says he wouldn’t hav...”
Beautiful Partygoer
Lynn Steger Strong
“We’d been in Maine six months, but for the first three our kids had continued to Zoom with...”
Mother-Daughter Story
Sigrid Nunez, Harper's Magazine
“How to explain to her daughter. Back when she was in college, she had taken a literary sem...”
Lovefool
Andrew Martin, Harper's Magazine
“The night before my brother’s second wedding, he held a rehearsal dinner that was, per con...”