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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.”
New Shoes
Hisham Matar
“My life in London, the life I had cobbled together with the barest of routines, grew thin...”
The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai
Jamil Jan Kochai
“Fifty years and I dream of him still, fifty years and every story, every joke, every bit o...”
Welkin Burials for Drones
Hannan Khan
“first fell like invocation—a drone wing wracked, calor-sick, shitting sparks as it swivell...”
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...”
Taj Mahal
Deborah Eisenberg
“I was a difficult little boy, and when my mother’s chronic illnesses made it impossible fo...”
Voltaire Night
Deb Olin Unferth
“I’m the one who started it. I was depressed as hell and wanted to share my bad news. “Has...”
The Caretaker
Anthony Doerr
“For his first thirty-five years, Joseph Saleeby's mother makes his bed and each of his mea...”
About Letters About Love, Mostly
Blanaid McKinney
“The first letter arrived on the same day I found the body. It was addressed to her so I di...”
The Royal Prayer
Ismail Kadare
“As the army prepared to set out on its homeward march with my body, leaving behind only my...”
The Time, the Place, The Loved One
Susan Welch
“I spend a lot of time alone now. It doesn’t bother me. The others took up too much time. I...”
Anamnesis
Stephanie Eve Bernstein
“You have lost something. You look for it. You find a key in your pocketbook. A picture. Tw...”