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Tamara Letkeman -

When the phone rang I was lying on the divan. It sounds so chic, like I was a lady of leisure waiting for other...

Claire Harlan Orsi -

The beginning of the dinner party, the part I liked best, was always the same. Us kids ate pizza (gluten-free crust as of last...

Emma Smith-Stevens -

We were always uneasy in the old place, a trailer we stayed in on the half-acre behind my boss’ house. There was almost always...

Sarah Gerard -

We’re kicked out of the party and John follows a few steps behind me toward the subway. I keep my eyes on the ground...

Eric Shonkwiler -

Months passed. He got a call from Glenn saying a railroad friend had come by, talking of a few half-starved horses by the state...

Nicole Chin -

I have ten seconds. Or at least that’s what it seems like. I reach for my backpack, but it's far off on the other...

Sasha Watson -

“Taz, yo, no shit, Taz just goes off on him!” Hector was all bouncing around in the big cracked leather chair by the window in...

Micah Perks -

After his wife died in childbirth, the man raised his daughter up until the September she left for college. That October, the man sorted...

Ester Bloom -

“People don’t save people, Annie,” he says. It is the morning after and Alex is being gentle but firm with me, like he has...

Ashley Little -

I was born in a laundromat in Paris, Ontario. If you knew Gina you wouldn’t think it was that weird. Gina is my mother....