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Yearly Archives: 2016

Just Visiting

By evening, a German man would swear he had seen the woman in orange leave, walking quickly towards the train station where he had...

Ice-Storm

The power knocked out midway through my stupid all day-all night Thursday shift and it got really cold inside my little boutiquette. Something popped behind...

Food I Ate With Frank

1. Fried kielbasa slathered with brie   Frank’s mother never keeps such food in the fridge. You can tell by the way he hefts the sausage...

Jonestown, Japantown

After reading the letter once, Truth called to her son, Cuffy, who was now six years old, in the next room. “Let’s take a...

Pull Me Under

Excerpted from Kelly Luce’s novel Pull Me Under. Available now from FSG. Order here. The news of my father’s second and final death arrives by FedEx. I push...

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Catch and Release

1. Maisie’s on the verge of something spectacular. This, we know—and not because the nanosecond upticks of her gait, pulse, blinks, aerobic functions, shuddering fast-twitch muscles are all textbook, or...

Save the Cat

This summer, everyone is drinking Aperol spritzes, and Simon orders one now. I would love an Aperol spritz, he says to the waitress, emphasizing that word—love—in a manner he...

Local Distance

A leucistic moose, a pearled animal with starch-white fur and black eyes, dies to a kia soul going 79 on an upstate rural road. The kia soul dies too—one...