Fiction

Elaine H. Kim -

“Our fiftieth anniversary is coming up,” Gene’s mother said to him as he jostled the mouse to bring her computer back to bright. One...

Lindsay Hunter -

It was a Camry. Lipstick red. Lacquered shine. They were in an old building in the part of town where all the warehouses were, lights...

Rion Amilcar Scott -

Dearest Slumlord, The ceiling in the kitchen cracked and split, and from the black abyss in between the clouds of plaster dived a team of...

Yvonne Yevan Yu -

“Who is the best English writer in the world, past and or present?” She'd never seen him before. There was no opening nicety, he'd just...

Ambika Thompson -

It started the day I got my negative pap results back. Slowly. At first it was just one, a toddler. The toddler seeped in...

Benjamin Woodard -

At the end of class one September afternoon, the professor watches as the unfamiliar student slinks from the room amid the usual hurricane of...

Rachel Harrison -

The following is an excerpt from Rachel Harrison’s novel The Return, available now. It was around then that it really started to eat at me,...

Sanchari Sur -

Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.But I was filled up also, with too much world, and, drinking, I myself ran over. – Rainer Maria Rilke’s...

Michael V. Smith -

I met him on my first morning at a new job at Lichtman’s bookstore in Toronto. My boss, Lynn, warned me to have Mr....

Ashani Lewis -

When I was 15, I lied to everybody except for my mother. “I’m going on a date,” I told her. “Have fun,” she said, without looking...