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Stories of the Week: 2009 - 2010

  • Renée  Thompson

    He wondered how others lived with their sins. Maybe they never did.

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  • Richard Wiley

    “The secret to happiness is not wanting,” Lars told the Buddha.

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  • David Prete

    “Oh, Jesus.” It’s the greatest shame since 1929’s stock market.

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  • Care Morency

    It was just what it was. Sex with someone who was not her husband.

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  • Paula McLain

    They all pivoted to face us, tan mannequins on a conveyor belt.

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  • Wayne  Harrison

    The pictures were taken in the woods, naked from the waist down.

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  • Alethea Black

    Derek was holding a gun. The barrel was pointed at his own temple.

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Stories of the Week: 2009 - 2010
Story of the Week
  • Alethea Black
    The Only Way Out
    Is Through
  • T. Coraghessan Boyle
    All the Wrecks I’ve
    Crawled Out Of
  • J. C. Duffy
    Compartment Man
  • Polly Frost
    That Final Paper
    You Want from Me
  • Mary Gordon
    Summer Fever
  • Wayne Harrison
    Divorced
  • Silas House
    Evona Darling
  • Tim Johnston
    Two Years
  • Charles Lamb
    Dream-Children:
    A Reverie
  • Edan Lepucki
    I Am the Lion Now
  • Katherine Mansfield
    Miss Brill
  • Paula McLain
    Trust
  • Lorrie Moore
    How to Talk to
    Your Mother
  • Care Morency
    Cunégonde in Warnemünde
  • Karen Peterson
    Sport
  • Hannah Pittard
    Pretty Parts
  • David Prete
    Three Thursdays
    in the Bronx
  • Mattox Roesch
    All the Way Rider
  • David Sipress
    Beautiful Things
  • Richard Smith
    Reasonable Men
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
    On Marriage
  • Renée Thompson
    Farallon
  • Brad Watson
    The Misses Moses
  • Stephanie Whetstone
    Strip Job
  • Richard Wiley
    The Strange Detective
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