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Are You Okay?

Tamara Faith Berger -

An excerpt from “The Way of the Whore,” revised and newly collected beside Believer Book Award winner Tamara Faith Berger's first novel,“Lie With Me,”...

Flight

Katya Apekina -

I’d stepped into the courtyard of Café Amelie to take the call from Hannah but I could only make out every third word she...

The Real Portlandia

Richard Melo -

Richard Melo's new novel, Happy Talk, is out this June from Red Lemonade. I was half out of my mind if not all the way....

Divestment

Helene Wecker -

Gerda Kohl, eighty years old, sat in the den of her house, surrounded by cardboard boxes. Her two daughters were fighting in the study...

The Clinical Trials of Eduardo Cabalas

Molly Lynch -

I got a job as a purple dinosaur that kids could get their picture taken with, on the corner of St. Catherine’s and Peel...

Bleakness. Laughter. Liberation?

Alicia Louise Merchant -

The second time someone told me I was dying I was 30 years old. The first time I was 23, but I was living...

A Doom of Her Own

Shannon Robinson -

Please understand. This story will tell you nothing in a straightforward fashion. Though the pages are numbered, you must not confuse sequence with consequence. The...

Life Camp

Jenny Halper -

Life Camp is also available in Joyland Retro Vol. 1 No. 3. We are told the sea monkeys need a special place to live. They...

Klan

Heather Sappenfield -

Elijah flung himself on his bed, jammed his hands behind his head, and stared at the double-winged models of WWI fighter planes hanging from...

The Pop-Up Restaurant

J. Ryan Stradal -

We admit it. Like almost all of you, we here at Spice Rack have never eaten at a restaurant called “The Pulitzer.” We’ve never tried what Food...