Fiction

A Rembrandt

Meredith Turits -

Excerpted from the complete novel manuscript, Everything I Want You to Be. In New York, it’s not the changing leaves that indicate fall is in...

The Rings

Eric Barnes -

Eric Barnes' new novel Something Pretty Something Beautiful is now available from Outpost19 Books. Here's a repost of Eric's Joyland story from earlier this...

Come Over Here and Take Your Medicine

Kayla Rae Whitaker -

Bad news: they found small white aphids on the Pearl Calico Shebunkins that morning. These were the moneymakers. The right kind of customer would...

I Want Too Much

Mona Awad -

Probably one of these days I’m going to kill Trixie. I have my reasons. I can hear her squawking to another customer just beyond...

Excerpt: Temple Grove

Scott Elliott -

Excerpted from Temple Grove, a novel by Scott Elliott, published by University of Washington Press. 1 Trace strapped her two-month-old son Paul into the rear-facing infant...

Chapman’s Green Hairstreak

James Greer -

We've reposted this story from our archives in advance of this month's edition of the Truth & Fiction podcast with guest James Greer. This...

Break All the Way Down

Roxane Gay -

The mother of my boyfriend’s youngest child called in the middle of the night. He was asleep, the heat from his body wrapping around...

Are You Okay?

Tamara Faith Berger -

An excerpt from “The Way of the Whore,” revised and newly collected beside Believer Book Award winner Tamara Faith Berger's first novel,“Lie With Me,”...

Flight

Katya Apekina -

I’d stepped into the courtyard of Café Amelie to take the call from Hannah but I could only make out every third word she...

The Real Portlandia

Richard Melo -

Richard Melo's new novel, Happy Talk, is out this June from Red Lemonade. I was half out of my mind if not all the way....