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Chilean Fruit Bats

Meredith Westgate -

The hotel is just outside the tiny town of Puerto Natales and from the look of the exterior, lights out, deserted parking lot, it is...

Confessions of a Wandering Hoarder

Jacob Scheier -

I have a problem. It’s a problem of excess or maybe it’s a problem of absence. It’s like this: I buy gum, and the wrapper...

Lottery Solidarity

Alejandro Varela -

I was home alone with our son when I found out, and my husband was away on business. It was August. I hadn’t yet told...

Through the Cracks

Yvonne Conza -

Legend has it that three panthers “with slow and sullen steps” once roamed the countryside where I grew up. Landscaped by sweeping farmlands and rolling hills...

Dirt

Shannon Robinson -

The house and all its dirt waited for my touch. I was parked by the curb with the engine running. I wanted to go in;...

This is the Game. These are the Rules.

Matthew Mastricova -

All of the rides are whirring and all of the games are singing and kids are everywhere screaming and shouting and smiling and crying. Peter...

Somewhere Inside of Santiago

Santiago Jose Sanchez -

Santiago hadn’t hooked in over a year when he invited the man over on Christmas Day. He waited in the kitchen for the door to...

Ken Deed

Mark Keats -

The day that Ken Deed had to choose his future did not start out unusual. As he drove to work his usual way, the same...

We Are the Time Travelers

Nancy Hightower -

L isten: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding day. He has walked...

Small Town, Big City

Patrick Bella Gone -

WINTER The plastic couple had fallen on the ground, one woman and one man in their Sunday best next to the park bench,...