An Extravagance
By Fiction Issue 107
He then went on, as if he were reading from a script, which I realized later he was, to list my severance package, which wouldn’t get me through the new year. It took me a second to realize someone from HR was in the office with him.
Read MoreThe Jordan Turned Its Back and Fled
By Fiction Issue 107
Yusef is so taken with the woman in black that he stares at her as she makes her way to the back of the van, and he forgets himself, and Iordannis has to remind him to start the van. Yusef decides right then and there that he will have her picture.
Read MoreGood Faith
By Fiction Issue 106
Jessica Treadway spins a tale of rivalry, scandal, and sacrifice in a small-town church community.
Read MoreThe Whole of Russia
By Fiction Issue 106
Even now, as you sit with the baby asleep in your arms, there are humble farmers amidst those lakes and rivers, their bodies bent close to the soil, and God is with them, the proof of his beating heart present in the summer’s pond lilies and the winter’s great gusts of clean white snow.
Read MoreGabriel
By Fiction Issue 105
I remember when those hands were furnaces burning in the hearts of celestial bodies. I watched the very dust fall to earth and become you.
Read MoreAssembly Line Prayer
By Fiction Issue 104
that you commit some part of your mind and heart to an unshakeable belief in the logic of global capital, which means that on a smaller scale you commit some part of your mind and heart to an unshakeable belief in the necessity of placing a two-inch needle into an instrument panel over and over and over again,
Read MoreThe Guests
By Fiction Issue 104
“‘Life has become better, comrades. Life has become happier!’”
Read MoreThree Stories
By Fiction Issue 103
Three stories by Diane Williams, master of the form.
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