Fiction

Gary Barwin -

From Yiddish for Pirates, a novel 1. Moishe as a child. He told me stories. Some were true. At fourteen, he left the shtetl near Vilnius for the...

Sarah Steinberg -

At first, I said moving to DC was like stepping inside a candy wrapper. That seemed right at the time but, then - not....

Chris Leslie-Hynan -

When we arrived at the colony, they sat us on the lawn and told us, don't drink and drive on the major streets. We'll...

Erin Brooks Worley -

My sister would sneak out late, after midnight. I’d hear her door open, then watch through my bedroom window to see her run down the...

Amanda Ackerman -

Troll A man devotes much of his energy to studying poetry. At times he even manages to write poetry, yet whenever he sits down to...

Daniel Scott Tysdal -

They are all anonymous. There’s the budding actress who takes the controls of the subway train for her first solo drive. Five years ago,...

Robert Schirmer -

Terrence Sheppard wasn’t sure why he decided to run in an isolated wooded section of Prospect Park that afternoon. Usually he jogged one of...

Emma Törzs -

The inside of the freezer was very blue and the girl was very blue as well. Her eyelashes were silvered with frost and her...

Jack Wang -

Two days before Halloween, Ernie stood in the men’s room relieving himself on break. That’s when the clammy gray face of Troy Festerling, grill...

David Winner -

There are only a couple more nights left of cable as Ernest, who paid for it, is no longer in his life. Angelo...