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Fiction

Story of the Week
The Ex-Con and the Samaritan
by Joe David Bellamy
How did I ever survive? Maybe I didn’t. Maybe I died back there.
Story of the Week
The Exception
by Barry Gifford
“Go watch the showgirls, Roy,” said Chino. “It’s educational.”
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The Far Shore
by Katie Coleman
My country neither interested me nor inspired any sense of fealty.
Fiction
The Fate of Others
by Richard Bausch
“She was breakable, and I probably knew it from the start.”
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The Final Angel
by Andrew Gross
The caved-in storefront looked as if a missile had slammed into it.
Classics
The Final Gift
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
I uttered words I will regret to my last breath, which is already near.
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The Flowers of Bermuda
by D. R. MacDonald
“Rev. MacLean’s been stabbed in Oban,” his wife said, her voice thin.
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The Forest Path
by Anna Ferrandou Sawyer
Half the women around here have a husband in some kind of fix.
Fiction
The Forgotten One
by Madelena Grossmann
What was he, twenty, no, twenty-two years younger than me.
Story of the Week
The Four Fists
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
It all started at Phillips Andover Academy when he was fourteen.
Classics, Story of the Week
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention.
Fiction
The Frenchman
by James Jung
Over salad, the Frenchman asked me about work and what I did.
Story of the Week
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins
There was a dry snap inside the door of the safe. “There it is.”
Story of the Week
The Gambler
by Morgan Talty
“I know, I know, I shouldn’t have done it, but they had it coming.”
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The Gambler, Part 1
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I have not won yet, but I behave, I feel and think like a rich man.
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The Gambler, Part 2
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Why is a duel out of the question? Men are all cocks; they should fight.
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The Gambler, Part 3
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I instantly realised what losing would mean. My whole life was at stake.
Fiction
The Garden of Israel Will Never Sleep
by Sandra Sidi
I’d chosen three hundred boys out of the best Israel had to offer.
Story of the Week
The Gentleman from San Francisco
by Ivan Bunin
Until now the man had not really lived, but simply existed, to be sure.
Story of the Week
The Geometry of It All
by Katy Lee
The dean’s voice was stuck in my head. Plagiarism. Expulsion.
iStories
The Getaway
by J. W. Gottlieb
Loved this little portal to my past so much that I went looking for others.
Story of the Week
The Ghost of Lady Hobby
by Sybil Marshall
Tirelessly her arm rose and fell, till the child at last fell at her feet.
Classics
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
by Irwin Shaw
“Some men’re like that. They have to see what they’re missing.”
Fiction
The Glory of Their Fame
by Robert Olen Butler
Darla has come to the monument to fight against her mind.
Fiction
The Go-Go Dancer
by Robert Coover
He picked up a fairy disguised as a go-go dancer and brought her home.
Story of the Week
The Gospel of Guy No-Horse
by Natalie Diaz
No-Horse sucked his lips, imagined the taste of the white girls’ hips.
Fiction
The Governess
by Ron Hansen
He could not help but take her as his wife. She was a scandal.
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The Grass Labyrinth
by Charlotte Holmes
I found myself wondering what her life had been in her widowhood.
Fiction
The Great Beyond
by Alma García
I could become something new. Improved. Like detergent.
Story of the Week
The Grey Dawn
by Patrick Kavanagh
Sitting beside a heap of steaming dung I felt in great poetic form.