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Cody Klippenstein -

Cale is treading water in the middle of the deep end, water sloshing in his ears and lapping at his chin as he listens...

Daniel Mueller -

I. In a world forever re-creating itself in the image of itself seen on screens, the shift from 100% cotton jeans to those made of...

Adam Sol -

We hated him when he was a boy – he was a poor student, an embarrassment on the pitch, and his family owned the...

Bryan Hurt -

PYTHEAS First of all Pytheas, Pytheas of Greece. He was everything that you’d expect from an ancient Greek person. Toga laurel wreath, all of...

Ammi Keller -

The man sat hunched above us on the hot tub’s ladder, his ankles in the water, his nipples pendulous and oyster pink. “So what...

Emily St. John Mandel -

Excerpted from the novel The Lola Quartet, available now from Unbridled Books. 1. Anna had fallen into a routine, or as much of a routine as...

A.G. Pasquella -

At the mall a lady offers me a free sample of zit cream and I’m about to be all sarcastic, like “Look, lady— I’ve...

Clifford Garstang -

I’m in the middle of an argument with my mother—she thinks I should ask her friend’s daughter Denise Knickerbocker out on a date while...

Tom Paine -

Last month, by Gmail, I got the invitation to your funeral in Japan on March 11th. It took me a few breaths to remember...

Arjun Basu -

And then she pulled off the highway and rolled into the town there and stopped in front of a bar and said “Get out”...