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Fear

Mary Alice Stewart -

The cops and coroners left and we were allowed back into Helen’s apartment. It appeared that everything had been moved. Even the water stain,...

Rocinante

Rebecca Morgan Frank -

He would be a horse’s ass. He had been auditioning for ballet companies and responding to calls for small parts for a year when...

Likeness

Steph Grossman -

I. On Anj’s eighth birthday, her grandma Gwen warns, “If you look in the mirror for too long, you’ll start to see the devil.” Her grandma...

Hiroshima

Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton -

23:48 YAR—A Moscow Restaurant Lukashevich, the vice-president of a small but impressive bank, and Zeldin, the owner of four supermarkets, sat at a table served for...

The Dance

Julia Pike -

The first problem is that Hector Lopez drank too many Pink Lemonade Smirnoff Ices in the passenger seat of Johnny Karlsson’s mom’s 2002 Honda...

Domestic Life on the Frontier

Silas Jones -

When she was new to the neighborhood Audrey used to plod past Carol’s house in the heat of afternoon and think, ew. Carol’s split-level...

The Next Station Is

Jimin Kang -

There is a game I like to play when I am riding alone on a train, as I am now, where I imagine the...

The Farmer’s Daughter

Raegan Bird -

Annebelle had a tendency of passing out on the front lawn. It isn’t something she does anymore, but she did it often growing up....

Great Expectations

Daniel Hornsby -

The four of them did everything together. Meals were communal and, thanks to Kate and Alex, vegan, though if Ilya had a stoned craving...

Sex in Venice

Alec Niedenthal -

The flight to Venice was irritating for two reasons. First, Robert was silent the whole time, except to announce that he wanted pasta and to...