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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Wartime Generations
The day was beautiful. Perhaps it was a good day to die for the right reasons.
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Out
All day you are outside, walking, alone. The businesses, save for a few, are dark and shuttered, the streets empty.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Vice & Hurricanes
I knocked at every registered address on the island that ever voted Democrat. And with it, experienced the culture of Galveston like accidentally swallowing the Atlantic ocean instead of a ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Voice Lessons
My goal is to reclaim what was lost.
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations
BOOK REVIEW: THE FORGERY
Art doesn’t just provide discrete instances of ways of seeing the world, alternative encounters with it into which we can enter while looking at a painting or TV show. Rather, ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Teach
Photo by Eric and Mary Ellen.
So the teaching associate, we called him “Teach,” but we meant no disrespect by that, it’s just that the name sort of fit because he’s ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
On a Clear Night in California
Above all, my father was benevolent; a man of the people, and of all living creatures.
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: THE FAMILIA GRANDE
We tend to think of guilt as having a straight-forward relationship with wrong-doing. We are taught that if you do something wrong, you will feel guilty and if you haven’t ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Once a Smoker, Always a Smoker
“I don’t know why you wanted to meet here of all places.”
She said it in a voice of perfect exasperation that was all at once disheartening and tenderly familiar ...
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BOOK REVIEW: HERE BE ICEBERGS
Katya Adaui sexamines the tangled knot of everyday ties that bind us – for better or worse.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Promise
In his mind Harold prepared a speech. If Maggie was going to fire him for stealing food, well, OK, it might’ve happened but he’d never gone overboard, and he supposed ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Summer of Acceptance
I was sixteen and mesmerized by the graffiti – framed by tunnels, bridges, and walls of industrial buildings. It seemed the only view on an Amtrak train from Springfield, Mass ...
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BOOK REVIEW: THE MEMBRANES
In the 22nd century, humanity has scorched the earth. Attempts to undo the catastrophic results of global warming have proved futile, and a new kind of “Noah’s Arc” has been ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Tunneling
Weasel is following me, panting, on hands and knees, through a passage we call Route 66, even though it’s only a hundred feet long, the diameter of a barrel hoop, ...
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BOOK REVIEW: THE BIRTH OF EMMA K.
The uncertainty at the core of these stories seems endless. The only thing that we can take for granted is that nothing can be taken for granted.
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Cat Sitting, Editing, and the Light Behind the Curtain
Paul pulled his sedan over to the curb in front of the house. The sedan’s battered engine rattled ominously as Paul shifted into reverse. Paul, used to the auditory threat ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Nostalgia, circa 1960’s
The Wikipedia tour guide spiel
It would be my time at the Beauty Pageant metropolis that summer. We start at the majestic Marlborough Blenheim Hotel at Nineteen Hundred Pacific Avenue and ...
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BOOK REVIEW: SOLO DANCE
In ‘Solo Dance’, by Li Kotomi, Japan – Asia’s most advanced country – is described as a “queer desert.”
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Family Vacation
Photo by Rick Pilot.
Be quiet.
You’ve been living in a strange house. It’s a sunny afternoon, but Mom’s upstairs with a stomach ache and Dad’s mapping a route. He’s desperate to ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
The Lucid Interval
Photo by Hervé Simon
One of memory’s slyer tricks is to colour things with a sense of foreboding. When I think of that night in Siena, the details seem prescient. The ...