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The Sky and the Night

Matthew Lansburgh -

The dog’s name was Marydog, named after the woman Ray loved, a dancer from Lubbock, Texas, who he swore was the most graceful creature...

The Zales Game

Orli Van Mourik -

Julia was not a woman given to magical thinking, one of those Whitmanesque souls who saw God’s fingerprint on everything from Orion’s belt to...

Homecoming

Olga Breydo -

I hit the brakes at a stop sign and look in the rear view mirror to do my lashes. The 1980 Chevy Cavalier is...

The Obvious Metaphor

Jillian Capewell -

It turned out the hospital wasn’t such a good place to have a lot of hot sex. This was a disappointing reality to take...

About Dust

Sarah Edwards -

My old boyfriend did not think I had critical thinking skills. “I don’t think you have critical thinking skills,” he said one night when we...

An Exercise in Etiquette

Rebecca Fishow -

Everything that summer felt like an exercise in etiquette. The publisher of the Maple Leaf Press, the meager community newspaper that operated out of...

Daddy I’m A Clown

Kevin Mandel -

Gone. Them. Really gone. Eventually she could talk about it easily. Perhaps too much so—glibness being an occupational hazard she was keen to avoid. “Not...

Combo Number 3

Duncan Birmingham -

Where are his eyebrows? I had prepared myself for gaunt and pale, sure. Maybe with a bandana like Campbell Scott in that horrible movie with...

The Vampire and Jesse Eisenberg

mj corey -

In college I wrote about the Female Vampire in Gothic Literature. Sadly, Twilight — that surreal era when Kristen Stewart pretended to be straight —...

Toast of New York

Rebecca Keith -

Thursday afternoons we volunteer at the senior center. It’s in a basement in the projects at the end of the block. It smells like...