Excerpt (Fiction)

Flower

Nettie Jones -

Excerpted from the novel Fish Tales by Nettie Jones (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) I think we could say that I was feeling maudlin that early summer night. Six...

Death

Nadia Terranova, translated by Ann Goldstein -

Our empirical experience of death is the disappearance from the physical plane of living beings. Such is the fact of our experience from without,...

My Time, My Side

Lynne Tillman -

During college, I had to invent or reinvent myself every day, create a person who awoke, dragged herself out of bed, and went to...

The Island

Oscar d’Artois -

Excerpted from The Island (Shabby Doll House, June 2024) Translator’s Note Chania, Crete – October 1st, 2027 True, prior to translating this book, I had heard the...

The Possibilities

Yael Goldstein-Love -

I was the last one to arrive, as usual. The six other women were in their folding chairs arranged around the bright green rug...

Worry

Alexandra Tanner -

The cabin air is dry and chemical. Everyone around us is watching My 600-lb Life. Poppy’s head is back and her mouth is open...

Cascade

Julia Hannafin -

Excerpted from Cascade (Great Place Books, April 2024) There is a starfish that sees with the surface of its body. The brittle star doesn’t have...

The Book of Ayn

Lexi Freiman -

Excerpted from The Book of Ayn (Catapult, November 2023) Despite their proximity to the city and the fact of their divorce, my parents insisted on...

Like a Cloud, Lighter than Air

Kate Doyle -

After Christmas, as she tries to swim up from her sadness, things which had always seemed laughable to Helen become comforting: Fate, for example....

SALMON

Sebastian Castillo -

Excerpted from the novella SALMON by Sebastian Castillo. The shape of salmon I had never before ridden on a train. Of course, I had read about...