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The Motorcycle Factory

Angie Sijun Lou -

"The Motorcycle Factory" by Angie Sijun Lou was awarded the third place prize in our 2021 Open Border Fiction Prize by judge T Kira...

Miss Korea Los Angeles

Lillian Wang Selonick -

"Miss Korea Los Angeles" by Lillian Wang Selonick was awarded the third place prize in our 2021 Open Border Fiction Prize by judge T...

In Eden, Eve

Kenechi Uzor -

"In Eden, Eve" by Kenechi Uzor was awarded the second place prize in the 2021 Open Border Fiction Prize by judge T Kira Māhealani...

Masculine

Mathilde Merouani -

"Masculine" by Mathilde Merouani was selected by T Kira Māhealani Madden as the winner of the 2021 Open Border Fiction Prize. "'Masculine,' a fresh, punchy...

The Gold Thread

John Cotter -

Heather knew there was a gold thread hidden in the city. In the months she’d lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant she’d looked behind loose bricks, under...

The Contest

Patricia McCrystal -

It all started, as so many things used to, with a letter in the mail. Clarence Merriweather plucked the postcard out of the mailbox. In...

Lexapro

Drew Buxton -

We did the photo shoot outside the Austin OCD Center. The staff took pictures of me and Scott. They took pictures of us sitting...

In These Troubled and Troubling Times

Katie Hale -

Marie first became obsessed with digging things up the week they buried her dad. It started with the time capsule under the rock in...

If She Has No Coffin

Shahriar Mandanipour -

The following is an excerpt from Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour and translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili. Seasons of Purgatory is available now...

The Martin Heidegger Statue

Jasmine Dreame Wagner -

The first thing the surgeon asks when he sees my scan is: when was the accident? I haven’t been in an accident. Earlier this...