Fiction
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FictionThe Model Short Story
On "The Death of a Government Clerk" by Anton Chekhov
Deb Olin Unferth
“Death of a Government Clerk” is one of Chekhov’s first published stories. I love it for its comic nonchalance, playful absurdity, brevity...
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Elephant
Elissa Schappell
Paige sat on the edge of the sandbox waiting for Charlotte to show up. She was surprised at how much she’d missed talking to her
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Ancient Greek
Dan Simon
Erica isn’t gifted in languages. Once long ago, she signed up for a German class and lasted exactly three days.
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Au Revoir, Ma Vie
Floyd Skloot
Jacques Goldman didn’t mind forgetting. There was plenty he was ready to forget. For starters, Goldman wouldn’t have objected to losing...
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Mexican Honeymoon
Terese Svoboda
Edgy dogs tap their toenails beneath the staircase in the courtyard. He flaps his napkin at one, Caffay o-lay!, ordering in sight of the half-ruined...
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FictionThe Model Short Story
On "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” is beautifully written, with a touch that one might best describe as delicate
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Kosciusko Bridge
Terese Svoboda
Edgy dogs tap their toenails beneath the staircase in the courtyard. He flaps his napkin at one, Caffay o-lay!, ordering in sight of the half-ruined...
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L'Odysée
Frederic Tuten
Then I made me way into the tottering house itself and found it all in shambles. A clothesline freighted with frilly red underwear, not mine...
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The Consultant
Catherynne M. Valente
She walks into my life legs first, a long drink of water in the desert of my thirties. Her shoes are red; her eyes are green
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Bloodweed
Robley Wilson
Grandfather Chandler says God made only two kinds of bloodweed: the stiff grass with greenish-purple flowers that grows wild in the ditches hereabouts...