Fiction
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Fiction
Wedding Day
Robley Wilson
It was Benjamin Howard’s wedding day, the second of his life and, he hoped, the last. Annette, the bride-to-be, was asleep in the bed he...
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FictionThe Model Short Story
On "Salvation" by Langston Hughes
Matthew Sharpe
“Salvation” is the third chapter of Langston Hughes’s memoir The Big Sea, but this two-page tour de force of prose is also a compact...
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FictionThe Model Short Story
On "Sweethearts" by Richard Ford
Richard Ford
Yes, we could have played it safe and inaugurated this series with something by Chekhov or Gogol or by someone like Alice Munro, who writes nothing...