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Fiction

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.
Fiction
The Kingdom
by Skip Horack
“With me for an uncle you don’t never need to be afraid of him, baby.”
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 1
by Skip Horack
Even if he lost her he would never disparage her, never not love her.
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 2
by Skip Horack
Now, with new orders to carry out, he’d been restored to factory settings.
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 3
by Skip Horack
Clark and Robertson got a reset, and Tuyen would get a baby. But Mikey?
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 4
by Skip Horack
L’chaim. To lives both bygone and ongoing, and to the truths I choose to believe.
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.
Fiction
The Hot Country
by Robert Olen Butler
El Presidente was no longer in a mood to see the American press.
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.
Fiction
The Killer
by Ron Hansen
The Kid came back from the post trader’s store with a six-shooter.
Classics
The Lady with the Little Dog
by Anton Chekhov
Gurov reflected, “it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make her acquaintance.”
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Fiction
The Lamp of Truth
by Octavia Randolph
“We have heard that this blackened smear is art. We do not see it.”
Story of the Week
The Landfill
by Anthony Marra
The interrogator was both man and deity, prophet and god.
Story of the Week
The Langham Club
by Spencer Wise
We backed up and I kept ripping it at his face, trying to knock his teeth out.
Story of the Week
The Lapedo Child
by Suzanne Feldman
The blood had been soaked up in sawdust—“this is hell.”
Story of the Week
The Last Artist in New York
by Polly Frost
Living as the last artist in Manhattan: it’s the ultimate test of commitment.