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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...”
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,...”
Bubble
Angie Sijun Lou
Dagger Mat
Eka Kurniawan
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...”
Rate Your Happiness
Catherine Lacey
“How natural it is to fail, to fail to decide, to remain in meaningless motion.”
Something Familiar
Mary Gaitskill
“She didn’t remember what she’d said, only that it had gone on for the whole hour, and that...”
Predictions and Presentiments
Valeria Luiselli
“How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives? It was going to be only her and me from now on...”
Why Trees
Hannah Gold
“A ten-minute coffee break was called on set, time Laura used to continue her keen, proprie...”
Eiffel Towers
Aurora Huiza
“I felt my life flick by at 2x speed. I used to be able to take my time eating the cheese o...”