Fiction
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Fiction
Klodt's Horses
Mikhail Iossel
One day, many years ago, in another lifetime, a friend told me that the sculptor Peter Klodt, author of the famed four-part Horse-Tamer composition...
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Fiction
What Happens Next
Roy Kesey
Was that meant to be a proper question? If not—if you were only making conversation—then very well, let us converse. But if so, then I’m...
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FictionThe Model Short Story
On "An Unwritten Novel" by Virginia Woolf
Kristopher Jansma
I teach two hours from where I live, so I spend a lot of time writing on the bus. It’s quiet and the route is scenic––once we get through North Jersey
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Father Figure or, How to Hang the Artwork of the Deceased in Six Trouble-Free Steps
Caleb Leisure
News of my father’s death arrived via First-Class Mail, between The New England Journal of Medicine and the spring Agent Provocateur catalogue
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Travel Tips
Manuel Martinez
You should travel as lightly as is possible, of course, and all manner of products can help you do so: quick-drying underwear and powdered soaps...
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Annunciation
Mary Morris
Maddy stands before a wall-size map of Italy. She’s staring at Tuscany while Joe shows her their intended route. They’ll be traveling there in June.
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FictionThe Model Short Story
On "The Elephant Vanishes" by Haruki Murakami
Lily Tuck
Italo Calvino once wrote that he wanted to edit a collection of stories that consisted of one sentence and, as an extraordinary example, he cites...
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Fiction
For Guayama
Luis Negrón
Sammy: First of all excuse my handwriting since I didn’t bring my glasses. It’s just that, nene, I’m going nuts with Guayama being sick...
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Child? Dog? Stay? Run?
Leigh Newman
The house, with its gabled roof and bay windows, Paul had to admit, was a tad ambitious. Thirteen years of testing and retesting their daughter...
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Fiction
Betrayal
Sigrid Nunez
Whenever I travel I try to avoid getting into conversations with strangers I happen to be sitting with. There is nothing worse than being trapped...