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Fiction

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 Hot Country
by Robert Olen Butler
El Presidente was no longer in a mood to see the American press.
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.
Fall Contest Winners
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.
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.
Story of the Week
The Grey Dawn
by Patrick Kavanagh
Sitting beside a heap of steaming dung I felt in great poetic form.
Fiction
The Halverson Brothers
by Austin Smith
We’ve tried, but it seems it is in the stars for us to hate each other.
Story of the Week
The Hanging
by Lauren Markham
On that still, snowy day, Mick’s neck popped like a flaming log.
Fiction
The Harp Department in Love
by Richard Bausch
She’s innocent, guilty of nothing but the need to be admired.
Fiction
The Hotel Macabre
by Richard Bausch
At straight-up noon, the honeymoon was ruined, one day in.
Story of the Week
The Hawk
by Brian Doyle
Recently a man in my town took up residence on the football field.
Fall Contest Winners
The Healer in the Motel
by Millicent Dillon
You know how good she has always been at hiding herself.
Fiction
The High Place I Go
by Skip Horack
My husband screws around. Not much and not often, but I know.
Story of the Week
The High Woods
by Jessica Van Dessel
“Folks need other folks, that’s all I mean. Especially here in the Ohio.”
Story of the Week
The Hill
by Claire Seymour
It’s all good,” Mila says, meaning, it’s so not, her voice glass-like.
iStories
The Hookup
by Jan Ellison
This is what he must have felt when she told him about her affair.
Story of the Week
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
by D. H. Lawrence
So long as there was money, the girl felt established, and brutally proud.
Six-Word Stories
The Human Comedy
by Sherman Alexie
The Human Comedy: Four new six-word stories by Sherman Alexie.
Six-Word Stories
The Human Comedy Part II
by Sherman Alexie
These six-worders work in a strict three-act structure, like screenplays.
Story of the Week
The Indianness
by Geeta Tewari
I went for a natural, “I look pretty even when I’m giving birth,” look.
Story of the Week
The Ivory Hotel
by Julia Lichtblau
I have three girls from my previous marriages, but she beats them all.
Story of the Week
The Jewess and the Templar
by Sir Walter Scott
Rebecca beheld the sword which was suspended over her people.
Classics
The Jockey
by Carson McCullers
His hands stiffened so that the fingers curled inward like gray claws.