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Stories

Fiction
Being with Kate was like a circuit connecting, lighting everything up.
Story of the Week
Pigeons are born knowing where they belong, with whom they belong.
Fiction
Bo could live with his contradictions. They were what made him whole.
Story of the Week
It whispered a promise of great wealth, and I was listening.
Story of the Week
“Come here, my good child; sing me Pergolese’s Salve Regina.
Story of the Week
The school’s committed to an all-sterile facility by the year 2025.
Story of the Week
Their marriage had dwindled to a separation and a running joke.
Story of the Week
“Clean up this mess!” I tell the woman. “How can you live like this?”
Spring Contest Winners
Husk was sturdy. He just breathed like it. Not like me. My lungs rattle.
Winter Contest Winners
There is a pure fear, in waking somewhere you have not lain down. She runs until her blisters bleed. Then, she runs some more.
Story of the Week
It was just what it was. Sex with someone who was not her husband.
Story of the Week
Let the public do itself the honor to read and follow in my footsteps.
Story of the Week
She wondered if tomorrow would fill her with so strange a stirring.
Fiction
If I had been blessed that afternoon, why did I lose my tongue?
Fiction
And so it was clear that Mia was still basically a teenager.
Story of the Week
Did you hear about the candidate who grabbed Hugh’s dick?
Story of the Week
“If a man wanted, he could be anything and not come back.”
Classics
He got his wife off a German farmer, for whom he went to work one day.
Winter Contest Winners
Ira and Ada are stepsiblings. Within a month they were sleeping together.
Story of the Week
She had instinct for seeing what she could make happen.
Story of the Week
“Then I can promise to kill either of you if I ever see you again.”
Story of the Week
What was happening? All she wants is for Teddy to fuck her silly.
Fiction
“You are too young for politics, too beautiful for a jail cell.”
Story of the Week
Not every fate was alike. Not everyone ended up paired off in love.
Fiction
God doesn’t punish wrongdoing. Rewards multiply if tended to in secret.
Story of the Week
Mikey said the hole wouldn’t lead to China, but he was frequently wrong.
Fall Contest Winners
I was creating art instead of counting beans like everyone else.
Winter Contest Winners
I was constantly being torn between belief and disbelief in his narrative.
Story of the Week
“Silence can be difficult, and we’re silent the whole time,” she said.
Story of the Week
The pictures were taken in the woods, naked from the waist down.