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Fiction

Story of the Week
How I Left a Life of Crime and Came to America
by Judith Barrington
We were aiming for a complete transformation of society.
Short Shorts
How It Is
by Liesl Wilke
He doesn’t have to lie about oatmeal. That’s the way things are for him.
Story of the Week
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
by Leo Tolstoy
“We must also buy twenty acres or so. Life is becoming impossible.”
Story of the Week
How to Defy Gravity
by Lauren Hebert Duncan
“I know I am disabled. Technically. But I don’t feel that way.”
Fiction
How to Lose Everything in Twelve Easy Steps
by Alethea Black
Wake up drenched in sweat, with fatigue that reaches to your marrow.
Story of the Week
How to Talk to Your Mother
by Lorrie Moore
Ask your mother about babies. Ask her about the baby that died.
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Fiction
How We Handle Pain
by Evan James Roskos
Lily hated Ray’s cancer. She couldn’t see it or cure it.
Story of the Week
Humming
by Joan Elaine Muller
Our hopes swirled around the act of swallowing a teaspoon of yogurt.
Story of the Week
Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
As soon as I heard his voice, I felt as if a wind had swept through my head.
Story of the Week
Hurricane Ian
by Linda Bernal
Hurricane Ian was bearing down on us. Jack wanted to stay and ride it out. I was passed out on the floor, the TV on, when Ian made landfall.
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Story of the Week
I Am the Lion Now
by Edan Lepucki
Let the squeamish suffer their fear, let them live without really living.
Story of the Week
I Believe
by Lesley C. Weston
We agreed: no hearts, no flowers, just courteous, no-strings sex.
iStories
I Thought I’d Be a Movie Director
by Lucy Gray
In the story she was a dripping, chocolate-covered vamp.
Classics
I Want to Know Why
by Sherwood Anderson
There’s something I saw at the race meeting I can’t figure out.
Spring Contest Winners
I Would Be Happy to Leave This Asylum
by Scott Tucker
Protect your hands. You can always get by if your hands aren’t broken.
Fiction
I.S.O.
by Antonya Nelson
If dating taught Cory anything, it was that he needed an ex-wife.
Fiction
Ice
by Andre Dubus III
Somewhere along the way her husband had gotten scared.
Nonfiction
If I Owned a Gun
by Andre Dubus III
It was an act that made me feel safer but also somehow more imperiled.
Fiction
Ice Cream
by Rae Canaan
“The other kids. They’re making ice cream. I’ll show you, come on.”
iStories
Idolatry
by Sherman Alexie
Marie was Indian, and everything Indian required patience.
Fiction
If I Could Speak Chinese
by Elizabeth Benedict
On the small of my daughter’s back is a two-inch tattoo. MADE IN CHINA.
Story of the Week
If the Body Makes a Sound
by Tryphena L. Yeboah
Silence, a weapon of choice, hung between them, cut through the air.
Story of the Week
Iggy, Summer
by Debra Jo Immergut
The excursion brought shape to that entire scruff-covered summer.
Story of the Week
Imaginary Intangible Thing
by Emily Lake
They met on the app in April, shortly after her twenty-ninth birthday.
Fiction
Immigration
by Richard Bausch
Oh, how did people do it? How did they find some way to be happy?
Story of the Week
In a Jar
by Morgan Talty
My father then got partials implanted, which were later punched out.
Story of the Week
In Between Days
by Andrew Porter
The first time she’d touched his body, it had been like going back in time.
Six-Word Stories
In Country
by Robert Olen Butler
"In County": A new six-word story by Robert Olen Butler.
Fiction
In Other Words
by Jennifer Haigh
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Story of the Week
In Sloane Street
by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Pushing by the man, he ran down the street towards the station.