The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
By Fiction Issue 118
While all this was going on, the Christ above the altar began to come alive.
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By Fiction Issue 118
Good evening. Are you an angel?
Read MoreIn Between
By Fiction Issue 118
Gwanda was an entertainer who received applause alongside floggings and detentions. No matter how much the teachers punished him, he always kept a smile on his face, a pleasant kind of protest.
Read MoreSafety
By Fiction Issue 117
Lauren was waiting for the holy word of God. It was spring. Whatever.
Read MoreRule Out
By Fiction Issue 117
So much wine—wine with food and wine without, wine while they watched the kids play in the yard and when it was just the women together on a Monday night.
Read MoreFrom The Celestial Sea
By Fiction Issue 117
When I sit here alone, notebook lying open on my writing desk, I find I become someone other than the person I am when walking about or sitting in company or even sleeping.
Read MoreThe Master
By Fiction Issue 115
Relationships, she believed, were built not on loyalty but a system of material and emotional labor, wherein you paid a percentage of your valuable time and energy to receive a percentage of someone else’s valuable time and energy in return. She was suspicious of anyone who claimed purer motives.
Read MoreAll Her Beautiful Children
By Fiction Issue 115
In the garden, love is dirt and rain: through every wet blossoming Joanna hears children singing—
Read MoreAiféala
By Fiction Issue 114
Eileen felt that she should deliver the news of her brother’s death in person. She knew she would provide no solace when the time came, that her presence would only heighten the reality of Brandon’s absence; yet her mother was nearing seventy.
Read MoreSodade
By Fiction Issue 114
Later, looking at his partially closed eyes, she suddenly remembered a creole word from the country where she had spent her childhood. Sodade. A mixture of nostalgia, tenderness, and yearning, a sense of the fragility of happiness.
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