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My Father’s Death is a Law School Graduate

Kate Axelrod -

I see her at the airport before she sees me — she alternates between checking her phone and looking around — and I feel...

Breaking

Julia Chan -

The little voice told me to come here. I don’t always listen to it, even though they say you should. But this time it...

Until I See Palm Trees Again

Ben Fama -

“People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare.” –Norman Buckley, quoting Michael Connelly, in a tweet He’d kept in touch with Mars the week...

Four Ghost Stories

Bonnie Nadzam -

Excerpted from Bonnie Nadzam’s new novel Lions available now from Grove Atlantic. 1. Today, where the old highway connects with the frontage road...

Neon Green

Margaret Wappler -

Excerpted from Margaret Wappler’s debut novel Neon Green, now available to buy from Unnamed Press here. It's...

Our Girl

Alison B. Hart -

Annie liked Rya’s way with Maeve right off the bat. Maeve could be so aloof with strangers. But when Rya got down on her...

Fugue

Maryse Meijer -

Maryse Meijer's debut collection of fiction, Heartbreaker, is available from FSG Originals on July 12 and can be ordered here. Amelia Gray said that...

Sunday Habits

Afabwaje Kurian -

His would-have-been wife Rachel was coming too, over to the house that he had built for himself but would have been home for the...

On Fourth of July Passenger Pigeon Barbecues, and the Falling of Empires

Matthew Frank -

Someplace inside you, dear extinct passenger pigeon, lurks a force that remembers an era when your species was so abundant, the size of your...

Desiree

Linnie Greene -

I woke up on her couch, rain outside, wine still sloshing in my stomach, a dry mouth and my heart beating fast when she...