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The Diaphanous Casting Agency

Gretchen Schrafft -

The voice says it got your information from the Diaphanous Casting Agency. You are on Route 6, driving back to Hyannis from your daughter...

Wiggle and Shake

Amelia Kahaney -

Dear Miss Sarah, I have been a devotee of Boogie Doodle Junction long enough to remember when those redheaded twin girls destroyed the balloon arch...

Ghost Story

Claire Burgess -

The tour group clusters in a semicircle around Rick, breathing on their fingers and eyeballing the poorly lit parking lot between a dentist’s office...

The Brothers Vine

Andrew F. Sullivan -

Excerpted from Waste: a novel, now available from Dzanc Books. You can purchase a copy here. Thomas and Allan Vine were born ten months apart....

A Letter

Jane Armbruster -

“Oh, Margaret. I almost forgot,” Margaret’s mother Velda Raucher said, pulling an envelope from her apron pocket with her fingertips as though she might...

So Was Love

J.T. Price -

There was going to be a war and Luke had a movie coming out. It was unclear which would go on first. Luke voiced...

Regarding Your Work

Chelsea Hickok -

Los Angeles, April 14th, 1949 Dear Mrs. Eames, I’m going to call you Ray because after seeing your paintings in New York I feel like I...

Thirty-Nine Messages for C: Lucy As Catastrophe

Emily McLaughlin -

Lucy booked a new commercial—Dr. Scholl’s and they would shoot her from the ankle down. I told her a foot on TV was better...

The Huldra

Ryan Sloan -

Finn edges into the old garage for another box of his mother’s things. She used to call this place The Shambles. The mid-afternoon sun...

The Sky and the Night

Matthew Lansburgh -

The dog’s name was Marydog, named after the woman Ray loved, a dancer from Lubbock, Texas, who he swore was the most graceful creature...