Short Story

The Fountain of Youth

Joel Cuthbertson -

Our father was trying to leave us. “But he always goes to work,” said the five-year-old. “This is different,” said his sister, who was ten. “You’ll see...

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...

Ghost Story

Kayla Maiuri -

Weeks into the new year I took myself to a diner outside the city. Folgers coffee served in thick ceramic mugs. Eggs and buttered...

Wife Numbers (A Fairy Tale)

Sophie Frances Kemp -

Our husband’s home looked just like this: Wood paneled walls but they are orange. A green rug. A Tiffany lamp, with the motif of a...

Tank

Isabelle Appleton -

The first time Clem told me about his love for tanks I thought he meant the top, then the armored vehicle, before I realized...

Gold Pawn

Cora Lewis -

An old flame of mine is coming to town. “You still have a thing for him,” Saul says. “He’s dreamy,” I say. “It’s good when they’re also...

Night Watch

Roskva Koritzinsky, translated by Bradley Harmon -

On the outskirts of town stood an old monastery, dilapidating. The monastery had been built towards the end of the Middle Ages and was...

Take Me to Kirkland

Sarah Anderson -

When Chloe called me in the car that Wednesday on the way to Costco, my boyfriend Damian and I were arguing about whether or...

Half Shell

Ariel Courage -

I'd been married six months when my husband died choking on an oyster. I was 23 and he was 27. I grew up by...

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,...