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A Bedtime Story

Gideon Jacobs -

Editor's Note: The below story includes hyperlinks to Cameos the author ordered from the perspective of the protagonist. In order to fully enjoy the...

Hoarse

Caroline Zancan -

She was the one who always did most of the talking, and her voice was almost completely gone by the time they were seated. After...

Powerhouse

Emily Chew -

Once, at age nineteen, she’d tried changing her first name to Lexie, which didn’t take and, a decade later, still made her feel ineffective...

Marlon

Maddie Crum -

Marlon — who had given her that name? She didn’t like to talk about her parents. “I don’t pay you enough for that,” she...

Agape

Hunter Braithwaite -

Mark is on the living room floor and his wife Sheila, she’s walking all over him. It’s like he’s one of those sushi platters...

Gene

Elaine H. Kim -

“Our fiftieth anniversary is coming up,” Gene’s mother said to him as he jostled the mouse to bring her computer back to bright. One...

The Embarrassment

Benjamin Woodard -

At the end of class one September afternoon, the professor watches as the unfamiliar student slinks from the room amid the usual hurricane of...

The Return: an excerpt

Rachel Harrison -

The following is an excerpt from Rachel Harrison’s novel The Return, available now. It was around then that it really started to eat at me,...

The Companions: an excerpt

Katie M. Flynn -

The following is an excerpt from Katie M. Flynn’s novel The Companions, available now from Gallery/Scout Press. Rolly Del...

Days of Distraction: an excerpt

Alexandra Chang -

The following is an excerpt from Alexandra Chang’s debut novel ...