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Charlotte Quinn Dreams of Rooms

Nicole Baute -

Charlotte Quinn is six the first time I see her, with fine yellow hair and a pink birthmark she’ll have on her cheek til...

Staccato

Colin Graham -

Here the men are different. Of course they are. They could not be the same as us. I knew that this would be so....

Spells

Matthew Daddona -

I am starting the Saturday ritual upstairs of moving the old boxes from the new bedroom back into the old bedroom when the doorbell...

Blow the House Down & Other Stories

Peg Alford Pursell -

Blow the House Down “Blow the house down!” Tommy says. He’s in his pajamas, thin at the knees, too short. His ankles and wrists jut,...

Cold

Arjun Basu -

The house was cold. A malevolent kind of cold. Like something haunted. The cold blew in and out of Ravi. It was like the...

The Swan as Metaphor for Love

Amelia Gray -

The Swan as Metaphor for Love is included in Amelia Gray's collection Gutshot, which is now available from FSG. Purchase it from Powell's A swan's...

The Poetry Audition

K. Anis Ahmed -

Excerpted from Good Night, Mr. Kissinger and Other Stories, available now from UPL Books. Bahram and Jamshed were dressed alike as children because their father...

In the Dark

Sarah Meehan Sirk -

What was that. A sound. Outside, by the door. Paul? Wait. He’s in Ottawa. No. Miami. Even further. I feel around for the phone I always keep in the...

Getting Lost

Bryce Warnes -

Rainbo1 and Marie2 are both watching the same lone pigeon3 walk along the edge of the curb at the bus stop. Its left foot is...

The Jammette

Sabrina Ramnanan -

Sangita Gopalsingh paced back and forth before the wrought iron gates of her home, her white nightie swishing in the late evening breeze. The...