Short Story

Honeymoon

Bryan Hurt -

The day before their honeymoon she got the flu. Then in the airplane she got an ear infection. In Paris the doctor gave her...

Bottom

Cecilia Corrigan -

It was going to be a beautiful night, the air was balmy and sweet. The day had been uncomfortably humid. Mia had decided to...

In the South the Sand Winds are Our Greatest Enemy

Rita Bullwinkel -

Gleb and Oleg were banished brothers. They lived together in a prison infirmary surrounded by snow. Gleb was a surgeon and Oleg a sculptor....

Pioneer Trek

Kate Finlinson -

In July of 1997, we were having a Pioneer Moment. In celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of our ancestors’ arrival in the Salt Lake...

Into the Valley

Ruth Galm -

Excerpted from Into the Valley, available August 4th from Soho Press. Galm launches Into the Valley at Books Inc. in San Francisco on August...

Fire With Legs

Colin Fleming -

It was very frustrating to have finally managed to scale one of the walls of the inside of the noise machine only to discover...

Murder Games

Caitlin Horrocks -

Ella’s backpack sagged with flashlight and string, fruit snacks and masking tape and two forks and a bike helmet. The best part of adventures...

C’est la guerre

Danniel Schoonebeek -

Excerpted from Danniel Schoonebeek's second book, C'est la guerre, which will be published this fall by Poor Claudia. Brooklyn, NY • October 2 The question is...

This is Stability

Anabel Graff -

I pick up the phone to call Peter because I don’t want to talk to anyone else. Because James has just left, this time...

Black Forest

Valérie Mréjen (translation by Katie Assef) -

Excerpted from Forêt noire (Black Forest), published in France in 2012 by Éditions P.O.L. * The seven-and-a-half-year-old girl (and she is more than a little...