Stories
Story of the Week
“Rev. MacLean’s been stabbed in Oban,” his wife said, her voice thin.
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He said, every night you close the store, I watch you walk to your car.
Story of the Week
Half the women around here have a husband in some kind of fix.
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A body must learn again how to accept the proprietorial hands of a lover.
Fiction
What was he, twenty, no, twenty-two years younger than me.
Poem of the Week
We had a pact to live outside the adult world forever, and we broke it.
Story of the Week
It all started at Phillips Andover Academy when he was fourteen.
Story of the Week
There was a dry snap inside the door of the safe. “There it is.”
Story of the Week
“I know, I know, I shouldn’t have done it, but they had it coming.”
Nonfiction
I cared less about the potential payoff than I did about being right.
Nonfiction
That autumn, my first in San Francisco, I ran short of money.
Story of the Week
I have not won yet, but I behave, I feel and think like a rich man.
Story of the Week
Why is a duel out of the question? Men are all cocks; they should fight.
Story of the Week
I instantly realised what losing would mean. My whole life was at stake.
Poem of the Week
Every voice an epitaph, and then a little tune from the neighbor’s yard.
Nonfiction
It’s not clear that Hemingway completely knew what he was doing.
Fiction
I’d chosen three hundred boys out of the best Israel had to offer.
Story of the Week
Until now the man had not really lived, but simply existed, to be sure.
Story of the Week
The dean’s voice was stuck in my head. Plagiarism. Expulsion.
Poem of the Week
so this god is only wood and holes, a blank, like the moon’s unlit side.
iStories
Loved this little portal to my past so much that I went looking for others.
Story of the Week
Tirelessly her arm rose and fell, till the child at last fell at her feet.
Classics
“Some men’re like that. They have to see what they’re missing.”
Fiction
Darla has come to the monument to fight against her mind.
Fiction
He picked up a fairy disguised as a go-go dancer and brought her home.
Narrative Outloud
Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.
Narrative Outloud
Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.
