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Pull Me Under

Kelly Luce -

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...

Dev: A Tale of the Vietnam War

John Davidson -

Fort Dix was everything a modern Army post should be, self‑sufficient, self‑contained, a world unto itself beyond whose bounds a...

Conflict Zone

Leesa Dean -

Leesa Dean is a graduate of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA program and teaches English and Creative Writing for Selkirk College in...

Castaways and Worry Dolls

Jackson Bliss -

What the fuck was wrong with the goddamn speedometer? If there was one, simple thing Brianna really needed right now, it wasn’t better wheels,...

Animals in the Garden

Rebecca Fisseha -

The house where I live is the last one on our street. There is a front garden of flowering plants surrounding the lawn, the...

Valencia

Mila Jaroniec -

Since moving to New York I’ve owned six copies of Valencia, but I keep losing them to girls. The first and most important came from...

Courtship in 2184

Rafal Redlinski -

Joan took special care with her scars that morning. She used the expensive glue and the smallest brush and worked so slowly that her...

Trinkets

Ian MacAllen -

I never suspected myself one of those people to marry because of an unexpected baby, but three days after Stefanie peed on a stick,...

The Program ™

Melissa Yancy -

Things had gone badly, and badly in ways she couldn’t have imagined, not for herself, not for anyone she knew. The story had been...

Vivisection

Marléne Zadig -

The first time I attended one of Salomé’s surgery salons, I recall I had a sunburn from lounging too long earlier that day in...