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Lisa Locascio Nighthawk -

For the spring break of her thirty-eighth year, Rebecca Park went to Barcelona in search of a fuck. That was her joke, anyway. She told...

Skidbladnir

Shannon Rabong -

When the old church burned down, Father Jakobsson was forced to hold service in the abandoned movie theater. Which would have been bad enough,...

Sketch Artist, Boxer, Party Planner, Baker

Sam Shelstad -

On a Greyhound chugging westwards, squeezed up against the window by the flabby arm of a sleeping farm boy, Doug Sachs struggled against the...

Clear Skies

Lynn Coady -

Lynn Coady's most recent books are The Antagonist and the collection Hellgoing, which won the 2013 $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize. "Clear Skies" was the...

Park

Glen Pourciau -

New neighbors have moved in next door, and we're hoping for an improvement. Our former neighbor lived alone after his wife left him and...

The River Crossing

Andreas Trolf -

The young man sat in the old house looking at a magazine. He stopped reading when he suddenly noticed the bird songs coming in...

Didi

Shruti Swamy -

When I got back from the grocery store, my wife was sitting in an armchair and looking out the window at the rain. She...

The Boy Through the Window

Sofia Mostaghimi -

Although they have trouble burying the bodies because the ground is frozen, I pictured it as a beautiful thing: pale and naked, lined up...

Lou Schultz

Mimi Lipson -

When Lou Schultz got to the Avis desk at the Orlando airport, the compact car he’d reserved was not available, nor was there a...

Broken Notes

Yejide Kilanko -

During an unguarded moment, she’d wondered what it would be like to live with a man. Dawn to dusk, day after day, the presumption...