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Fiction

Story of the Week
Days of Summer
by Rome Smaoui
“If a man wanted, he could be anything and not come back.”
Fiction
Dead Man’s Run
by Olufunke Ogundimu
I seek these ghosts because they allow me to return home outside of time.
Story of the Week
Dear Fox
by Lisa Taddeo
The mistake you make with this man is, you wait around for him.
Classics
Death in the Woods
by Sherwood Anderson
He got his wife off a German farmer, for whom he went to work one day.
Winter Contest Winners
Debt
by Julie Diamond
Ira and Ada are stepsiblings. Within a month they were sleeping together.
Story of the Week
Do I Know You?
by Julie Diamond
She had instinct for seeing what she could make happen.
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iStories
Debutantes
by Cynthia Litz
Her father is important in his village and has three wives.
Story of the Week
Declarations
by David Armstrong
“Then I can promise to kill either of you if I ever see you again.”
Story of the Week
Denial
by Meg Serino
What was happening? All she wants is for Teddy to fuck her silly.
Fiction
Descending and Ascending
by Joyce Carol Oates
I saw her bed wasn’t slept in and knew—something had happened.
Story of the Week
Desert Wedding
by Valerie Trueblood
Why had she asked him to come along, someone she did not even know?
Six-Word Stories
Despair
by Janet Burroway
Despair: Janet Burroway’s first Narrative Magazine six-word story.
Fiction
Devil’s Child
by Farnaz Fassihi
“You are too young for politics, too beautiful for a jail cell.”
Story of the Week
Devotion
by Adam Haslett
Not every fate was alike. Not everyone ended up paired off in love.
Fiction
Dido and the Lottery
by Katherine Vaz
God doesn’t punish wrongdoing. Rewards multiply if tended to in secret.
Story of the Week
Digging
by Robin Romm
Mikey said the hole wouldn’t lead to China, but he was frequently wrong.
Fall Contest Winners
Dim Lighting at the Afterparty
by Dave Bausch
I was creating art instead of counting beans like everyone else.
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Six-Word Stories
Dinner Date
by Anna Lewis
The story of a date over dinner—all in six words.
Fiction
Diplomacy
by Don Lee
Their hands were acting as airfoils, producing lift, not drag.
Fiction
Dirty Butter
by Amy Bloom
There were women everywhere, all naked or nearly naked.
Winter Contest Winners
Disbelief
by Millicent Dillon
I was constantly being torn between belief and disbelief in his narrative.
Story of the Week
Distance of Closeness
by Carol Dines
“Silence can be difficult, and we’re silent the whole time,” she said.
Story of the Week
Divorced
by Wayne Harrison
The pictures were taken in the woods, naked from the waist down.
Story of the Week
Do You Have a Name?
by Elizabeth Bloom Albert
You knelt down to kiss her, avoiding, of course, the wound at her brow.
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Story of the Week
Dodge
by Elea Carey
I wanted to tear away at the fabric of my pants, dig open my skin.
Fiction
Dog Heaven
by Tom Grimes
She pointed to the end of the driveway. “Is he yours?”
iStories
Doing His Laundry for the First Time
by Jan Ellison
She holds the shirt to her face and inhales. With a start she pulls away.
iStories
Donahue’s
by Andrea Marcusa
My husband barely noticed, while I felt the sharp bite of her words.
Fiction
Donnaiolo
by Richard Bausch
“There’s got to be some way through this,” he says, “without losing her.”
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Fiction
Don’t Open That Door
by Gary Buslik
The waitress looked us over, wondering, I guess, if we were famous.