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In Friendship and Illness

Taryn Bowe -

We were in the back of a van hurtling through the dark, strange streets of India. This was in 2000, late at...

Sweet Tooth

Serkan Görkemli -

Out of the dozens of fellow students Sinan met during orientation at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul in fall 1993, only Cengiz made an impression....

Pregnant Doxology

Blair Hurley -

When I was pregnant, I was steadily nauseous for the first three months, and lay on the pilly corduroy couch of my apartment most...

The Best

Yvonne Yevan Yu -

“Who is the best English writer in the world, past and or present?” She'd never seen him before. There was no opening nicety, he'd just...

Chloe

Ambika Thompson -

It started the day I got my negative pap results back. Slowly. At first it was just one, a toddler. The toddler seeped in...

In the Face of the Beloved

Sanchari Sur -

Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.But I was filled up also, with too much world, and, drinking, I myself ran over. – Rainer Maria Rilke’s...

Weinmeier

Michael V. Smith -

I met him on my first morning at a new job at Lichtman’s bookstore in Toronto. My boss, Lynn, warned me to have Mr....

Close Up

Ashani Lewis -

When I was 15, I lied to everybody except for my mother. “I’m going on a date,” I told her. “Have fun,” she said, without looking...

Swimmers in Winter

Faye Guenther -

Originally published on Joyland in 2011, Swimmers Winter is the title story of Faye Guenther’s debut collection, available now in digital and in print in...

Sound Check

Adrian De Leon -

If you find eavesdropping a delicious pastime, become an audio engineer. The best gigs make you feel like an intrepid anthropologist. With a serious grimace,...