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Beauty Queens

Brittany Lynn Goss -

Lisette can feel her little sister Vi watching her as the car speeds along. Vi is in the backseat and Lisette is up front...

Dear HauntedKnitz4U

Julienne Grey -

If it weren’t for your socks, I wouldn’t be on this roof. You have far and beyond the best online shop for haunted socks,...

To Choose a Horse

Lauren Wallach -

Pablo always took the stairs but we met in the elevator. I had seen him before. Down the hallway, or in the earlier part...

The Wenceslas Men

Tobias Carroll -

The first time I saw one of them was as a shadow on the gauze curtains of an apartment that wasn’t mine. My lease had...

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...

Walking the Moons

Jonathan Lethem -

Jonathan Lethem's new novel, Dissident Gardens, is available now. "Walking the Moons" appeared on Joyland during its first year. “Look,” says the mother of The...

DaveWare

Mack Gelber -

I bought a 3D printer the other day. I’d been reading about them in magazines over the past year or so, watched videos of...

Blackbird

Sarah Lynn Knowles -

Dad's old college buddy, Rick Savage of Savage Motor Cars, was there to greet me at the Las Vegas airport, dressed as sleekly as...

A Rembrandt

Meredith Turits -

Excerpted from the complete novel manuscript, Everything I Want You to Be. In New York, it’s not the changing leaves that indicate fall is in...

Come Over Here and Take Your Medicine

Kayla Rae Whitaker -

Bad news: they found small white aphids on the Pearl Calico Shebunkins that morning. These were the moneymakers. The right kind of customer would...