Fiction

2007

Eddy Boudel Tan -

It started with a tragic old shirt. We’d spent the afternoon unearthing boxes from the depths of our closets, and now once-forgotten artifacts were...

Lady Leopard

Drew Calvert -

Jesse Munns was trying to tell his wife about the vault. It was June 1995, and he had just returned home from the Texas...

Parabiosis

Tess Gunty -

“I can’t hear you,” says Irene. “Speak up.” “Do you want me to separate the fiction from the nonfiction?” repeats Nora, her assistant. “What?” Irene has remarkably...

Bad Daddy

Rickey Fayne -

It’s 9 a.m. on Saturday morning and Grandmama is waking me up. She’s telling me that my daddies are hungry. She’s telling me that...

Reunion

Mimi Wong -

In spite of the early morning heat, the taxi driver insisted on keeping the AC turned off. My feet, puffy and pink after the...

Woman Flower

Jiaming Tang -

The woman who falls has many names. To customers, she is Mei—a sex worker with good prices and a sharp tongue. Online, where people...

Treasure

Annina Zheng-Hardy -

In summer especially, Julie thinks of her grandfather. She imagines him wheeling his bike out of the garage, the tires freshly resuscitated, ready to...

Spontaneous and Appealing

Chloë Boxer -

In the long shadow of a bad breakup with my dad, I was trying to become a more appealing and spontaneous person. It was...

Women I’m Not Friends with Anymore

Rebecca van Laer -

When I met Mara, my therapist and I were talking a lot about whether female friendship was really the only refuge from heterosexuality. Men are...

The Sweet

Rose Himber Howse -

I was still sitting there seven cigarettes later when the rain stopped. Two deer came to drink from the mud puddles around the hosta...