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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...”
Floating
Souvankham Thammavongsa
“After he left, I said to my friend, “I like him. Is he single?” My friend said he’d never...”
Taj Mahal
Deborah Eisenberg
“I was a difficult little boy, and when my mother’s chronic illnesses made it impossible fo...”
Love, Women
Patrick Dacey
“Kenny paced along the driveway, kicking stones, saying to himself, “Finish your milk, fini...”
Story of a Teacher’s Wife
Peter Orner
“Sunday and the beautiful and sleek and unsmiling and too good for us Mavala Shikongo is go...”
Everything
Ingeborg Bachmann
“Whenever, like two people turned to stone, we sit down to a meal together or meet at the d...”