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I’m a Secret
Shhh, shhh. I’m going to tell you my story, but not too loud, not too loud. Can’t let them hear; they won’t like that.
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The Other Eye
According to family lore, when Nuri came back with the bandage on her nose, everyone was shocked. There was enough nose on her to make three new ones, said amme ...
In the Beginning Was the Word and the Word Was from Our Sponsors
Gritty truth sells nothing. This has to be the kind of sadness that afflicts interesting, successful people.
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Bright morning stars are rising
He was old, his hair too long, too oily. He said he wanted my mum when he thought no one was looking, whispered it to her by the burgers and ...
The Skills of My Brother
But still he sends the needle down again, hesitates for a moment, letting it hover, making sure to get it in just the right spot.
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A fairly weathered friend
She keeps looking, searching for something that isn’t there anymore, but smiles at the same time, keeping a polite pace to the conversation.
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Divorce
It is our Tuesday afternoon marriage counseling session. My pouring tears warm my face and I tell him I am sorting myself out. I turn to face him and finally ...
Confession
She’s not sorry, that much I know. When she’s walking away, I crack open the door of the box to get a good look as she slips out into the ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Next Dawn
I know there is no escaping this, and I know that before the next dawn, this dagger will cut through either his neck or mine.
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Male or Female
In your mind, you are a girl…Outside your mind, you are a young man going on his first date with a girl.
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the TOWer
All gone. All quiet. A far distant grus grus then silence. He chews on, chews over his sense of estrangement, his speech now unconfident, self-conscious, swollen crumb to his tongue, ...
The End of Summer
I stubbed out my cigarette and wrapped my arms around my legs, chin resting on my knees. Lefty draped his arm across my shoulders and said, “You think it’ll always ...
Wittgenstein’s Conceit
And, he shared all those stories, which I +++my heart and promised not to tell, unless 1) scientists cloned a goat, 2) Man landed on the Moon, 3) two guys ...
Romance in Paris
In Paris you do the sightseeing thing, you go up and down Notre Dame, up and down the Arc de Triumph and up and down the Champs-Élysées.
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The Dressmaker
This is the moment when I turn my head, and spy six pale, anxious looking women gathered around me. I frown at the first one who frowns back. Look again ...
How I’ve Gotten to Feel
I was sixteen and she was twenty, and she had dropped out of school six months before graduation. “It was time for me to go,” she would tell me. “I ...
Unfurl
Night had come, and she raised a glass to that dark island night and she felt her heart calm and her blood unfurl.
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Home But Not by Jarred McGinnis
Illustration by Hannah Bagshaw
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Jarred McGinnis
Jarred McGinnis, an American living in London, is the co-founder of the literary variety night, ...
Tears by Grace Andreacchi
After the death of her son, a woman plunges into despair but is unable to cry. However, this changes after a meeting with a mysterious man. ...
Tuesday Afternoon
A small-time neighbourhood hoodlum shows some compassion for one of her victims.
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