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Stories

Story of the Week
The Cigarette Garden
by Jacob Hawkes
Of late a graduate student named Cassius has joined our ranks.
Fiction
The Clean-Out
by Yasmin Adele Majeed
I felt that this maternal oblivion could be the rest of my life.
Story of the Week
The Clicking of Cuthbert
by P. G. Wodehouse
The division of the community had become more marked than ever.
Story of the Week
The Coming of Gowf
by P. G. Wodehouse
The King’s affair was supposed to be a secret. But you know how it is.
Poetry
The Cliff
by Meghan Dunn
Meghan Dunn
Fiction
The Climax Forest
by Mary Morris
There in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, they saw Pete.
Story of the Week
The Clock of Paradise
by Patrick M. Butler
The cottage stood as a metaphor for what she wanted out of life.
Story of the Week
The Comfort of Crows
by Margaret Renkl
In time the squirrel who was my friend is my friend no longer.
Story of the Week
The Comfort Zone
by Martha Weinman Lear
It was as if my dead husband was flowing within me now, like blood.
Story of the Week
The Complaint
by Michael Wolff
Our remarks must be tempered by a sense of cooperation.
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Fiction
The Complicated Coast
by Nicola Keegan
Don’t tell him you’re a virgin, says Peggy. You’ll freak him out.
Classics
The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
by Galway Kinnell
I have to say I am relieved it is over: at the end I could feel only pity.
Poem of the Week
The Couple Who Fell to Earth
by Michelle Bitting
We went flying without a map as naked astronauts often do.
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Poem of the Week
The Cows at Night
by Hayden Carruth
In that great darkness could I explain anything, anything at all.
Poem of the Week
The Crab
by J. H. Yun
We buy a bag of cockles and three crabs, all female, sweet with egg.
Story of the Week
The Crazing of the Lagniappe
by Abby Frucht
A gift tells you who you are and what you’re not in the eyes of others.
Story of the Week
The Crime of the Brigadier
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He was nervous and ill at ease, but my bearing seemed to reassure him.
Poetry
The Crossing
by Amber Adams
The underworld reached out for your hand and found payment.
Fiction
The Crossing Guard
by Sara Houghteling
He’s clear about his wishes: to die in this house, in his own bed.
Fiction
The Cryptozoologist
by Skip Horack
If there was any magic in his sad life, it happened on that day.
Fiction
The Day of the Dead
by Skip Horack
When the coach called again, Wayne felt his temper slipping.
Story of the Week
The Cuban Club
by Barry Gifford
They danced only with one another and did not speak to white boys.
Story of the Week
The Curse of the Starving Class
by Fredrik Sjöberg
Ambition and coincidence had led me to the Royal Theatre.
Fiction
The Cutter
by Lee Smith
He’s got a nice, deep kind of voice. He doesn’t sound redneck at all.
Story of the Week
The Damn Pin Cracked
by Robert Beatty
His mind was a glass vase shat-
tered into pieces across the floor.
Poem of the Week
The Dangerous Shirt
by Alberto Álvaro Ríos
The danger of the shirt—always, every moment, it is so obvious.
Poem of the Week
The Day Has Finished Waiting
by Cat Richardson
The day holds a cup of milk and sits on the couch, legs tucked up.
Story of the Week
The Dead
by James Joyce
We shall still cherish in our hearts the memory of those dead.
Classics
The Death of Prince Andrei
by Leo Tolstoy
“I can’t die, I don’t want to die, I love life,” Prince Andrei thought.
Story of the Week
The Decay of Lying
by Oscar Wilde
My own experience is that the more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.