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Stories

Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 1
by Skip Horack
Even if he lost her he would never disparage her, never not love her.
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 2
by Skip Horack
Now, with new orders to carry out, he’d been restored to factory settings.
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 3
by Skip Horack
Clark and Robertson got a reset, and Tuyen would get a baby. But Mikey?
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 4
by Skip Horack
L’chaim. To lives both bygone and ongoing, and to the truths I choose to believe.
Story of the Week
The Last Language
by Jennifer duBois
I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.
Poetry
The Leaf in My Pocket and Other Poems
by Maria Hummel
Thus is the way of leaves the secret ones that no one sees, not even me
Nonfiction
The Leash
by Tom Grimes
He was frightened, a creature no more or less unbound by time than I am.
Story of the Week
The Legacy of the Mayflower Landing
by Jason Brown
Americans didn’t invent courage, but we are no strangers to it.
Poetry
The Legend of Zelda
by Brian Tierney
We wanna play Nintendo till it’s dark out and can’t, the grid’s down.
First & Second Looks
The Leopard Hat
by Valerie Steiker
Classics
The Lesson of the Master
by Cynthia Ozick
The true Lesson of the Master is, simply, to husband one’s own stupidity.
Classics
The Lesson of the Master
by Henry James
Kids interfere with perfection. Wives interfere. Marriage interferes.
Fiction
The Letters
by Nicholas Delbanco
The letter both pleased and disturbed her. Why did he get in touch?
Poetry
The Lime Tree
by Jessica Dionne
They fed her honey, cream, bits of lime, that meaty pulp ripped from rind.
Story of the Week
The Little One Need Not Come
by Anne de Marcken
The house of our relationship is a fort. Blanket fort. Tree fort.
Story of the Week
The Little Weaver of Duleek Gate
by Samuel Lover
It was up airly and down late with him, and the loom never standin’ still.
Story of the Week
The Lives of Philosophers
by Kevin Brockmeier
He cannot imagine the shape his life would take without her.
Poem of the Week
The Lone Acceptable Application of Daylight
by Natalie Shapero
We entertain them. We kiss and spit and strike. We’re always changing.
Poetry
The Loneliness of Fireworks
by Zhai Yongming
If I also could be lifted into the sky, I’d wish to be blown apart.
Fiction
The Lonely
by Holly Wilson
I tell her I’m a woman now, that my boobs just popped in.
Fiction
The Long Consequence
by Richard Bausch
There in front of the house was his son’s ratty old Thunderbird.
Fiction
The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday
by David Corbett
The sense of power that flights of temper evoke will betray you.
Narrative High School Writing Contest
The Looking Glass
by Chloe Saraceni
Features
The Lost Screenplay
by Robert Stone
Our camera pans along the porch, and we see each praying woman.
Nonfiction
The Lost Sister: An Elegy
by Joyce Carol Oates
She could not have known how uncannily she resembled me.
Fiction
The Lucky Bastard
by N. Jane Kalu
It was on a mid-June morning that the stranger first called.
Fiction
The Lusitania
by Robert Olen Butler
A coldness bumped a last kiss upon my cheek, a good-bye kiss sliding across.
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Narrative Taste
The Magic Piano
by Aleksandra Crapanzano
Chocolate promises a happy ending. I believed in that promise.
First & Second Looks
The Making of a Writer
by Gail Godwin
Nonfiction
The Making of a Writer
by Gail Godwin
Write simple sentences. Report. Don’t moralize. No pretensions.