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Into the Valley

Ruth Galm -

Excerpted from Into the Valley, available August 4th from Soho Press. Galm launches Into the Valley at Books Inc. in San Francisco on August...

Fire With Legs

Colin Fleming -

It was very frustrating to have finally managed to scale one of the walls of the inside of the noise machine only to discover...

Commitme| Co| Commitment

Ian Williams -

For example: Do you lik me? Check yes no * For example, afterwards, her brother used to write...

Murder Games

Caitlin Horrocks -

Ella’s backpack sagged with flashlight and string, fruit snacks and masking tape and two forks and a bike helmet. The best part of adventures...

C’est la guerre

Danniel Schoonebeek -

Excerpted from Danniel Schoonebeek's second book, C'est la guerre, which will be published this fall by Poor Claudia. Brooklyn, NY • October 2 The question is...

This is Stability

Anabel Graff -

I pick up the phone to call Peter because I don’t want to talk to anyone else. Because James has just left, this time...

Black Forest

Valérie Mréjen (translation by Katie Assef) -

Excerpted from Forêt noire (Black Forest), published in France in 2012 by Éditions P.O.L. * The seven-and-a-half-year-old girl (and she is more than a little...

Olympic

Keith Wagstaff -

We woke each other in the night. We lit stolen cigarettes in strange places. We lied. We sent each other notes signed with lines...

We Want Impossible Things

Jess Taylor -

I had a hard time falling asleep because I knew I couldn’t possibly be pregnant with his baby. And yet I was four days...

Examination Room

John Thornton Williams -

Rebecca was in the examination room with her father when Dr. Marshall told Walter his obesity was finally going to kill him, and soon....