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Excerpt from The Hive

Melissa Scholes Young -

The following is an excerpt from The Hive by Melissa Scholes Young, available now from Keylight Books. The Hive is a story of survival, sisters,...

If She Has No Coffin

Shahriar Mandanipour -

The following is an excerpt from Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour and translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili. Seasons of Purgatory is available now...

Vision

Cara Blue Adams -

The following is an excerpt from the short story collection You Never Get It Back by Cara Blue Adams. You Never Get It Back is available now from...

Hurricane Gothic

Blake Sanz -

The following is an excerpt from the short story collection The Boundaries of Their Dwelling by Blake Sanz. The Boundaries of Their Dwelling is available now from the...

Nina, Rome

Cristina Sandu -

The following story is an excerpt from the story collection The Union of Synchronized Swimmers by Cristina Sandu. The Union of Synchronized Swimmers is available now from Scribe...

The Brittanys: An Excerpt

Brittany Ackerman -

The following is an excerpt from the novel The Brittanys by Brittany Ackerman. The Brittanys is available now from Vintage. My cousin Liza works as...

The Family Way

Christopher DiRaddo -

The year Paul turns 40, his friends Wendy and Eve ask him to help them get pregnant. Nothing about the process feels natural to...

Reunion

Mimi Wong -

In spite of the early morning heat, the taxi driver insisted on keeping the AC turned off. My feet, puffy and pink after the...

Women I’m Not Friends with Anymore

Rebecca van Laer -

When I met Mara, my therapist and I were talking a lot about whether female friendship was really the only refuge from heterosexuality. Men are...

Daughters of the Air

Kate McQuade -

The game is Spin the Bottle. But now that we’ve emptied the bottle, whiskey’s casting amber blurs across the front-yard dusk, and our voices...