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Ms. Universe

Rebecca Rosenblum -

Baton went up into the blue sky, whipping around so fast it seemed to bend. Baton came down, the spin slowing just before seven...

Transcript: Appeal of the Sentence

Spencer Gordon -

A version of this story also appears in Cosmo, available now from Coach House Books. ...the sentence itself is a man-made object, not the one...

War of Attrition

Carleigh Baker -

My marriage is ending and it's my fault. In the other room, Andrew is snoring. I’m on the couch. Here is the buttery weight...

Tiger’s Got Teeth

Ethel Rohan -

Ethel Rohan's new collection of fiction, Goodnight Nobody, is now available for preorder from Queen's Ferry Press. Here's a repost of Rohan's 2011 Joyland...

Big Lunch

Julie Mannell -

Minutes after the cathedral tour, I was with this boy at Hesburger on Vilnius Street. Just two casual acquaintances on vacation, as they say....

Mutations

Andrew F. Sullivan -

Andrew Sullivan's first book, All We Want is Everything, is now available from Arbeiter Ring Publishing. The short story collection will be launched tomorrow,...

I Want Too Much

Mona Awad -

Probably one of these days I’m going to kill Trixie. I have my reasons. I can hear her squawking to another customer just beyond...

Are You Okay?

Tamara Faith Berger -

An excerpt from “The Way of the Whore,” revised and newly collected beside Believer Book Award winner Tamara Faith Berger's first novel,“Lie With Me,”...

The Clinical Trials of Eduardo Cabalas

Molly Lynch -

I got a job as a purple dinosaur that kids could get their picture taken with, on the corner of St. Catherine’s and Peel...

Bleakness. Laughter. Liberation?

Alicia Louise Merchant -

The second time someone told me I was dying I was 30 years old. The first time I was 23, but I was living...