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Stories

Story of the Week
The Fall Line
by Tim Erwin
I saw Les gazing up at me. And that’s when I made my mistake.
Story of the Week
The Far Shore
by Katie Coleman
My country neither interested me nor inspired any sense of fealty.
Fiction
The Fate of Others
by Richard Bausch
“She was breakable, and I probably knew it from the start.”
Fiction
The Harp Department in Love
by Richard Bausch
She’s innocent, guilty of nothing but the need to be admired.
Fiction
The Hotel Macabre
by Richard Bausch
At straight-up noon, the honeymoon was ruined, one day in.
Classics
The Final Gift
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
I uttered words I will regret to my last breath, which is already near.
Story of the Week
The Flowers of Bermuda
by D. R. MacDonald
“Rev. MacLean’s been stabbed in Oban,” his wife said, her voice thin.
Story of the Week
The Forest Path
by Sawyer A. Ferrandou
Half the women around here have a husband in some kind of fix.
Fiction
The Forgotten One
by Madelena Grossmann
What was he, twenty, no, twenty-two years younger than me.
Story of the Week
The Four Fists
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
It all started at Phillips Andover Academy when he was fourteen.
Fiction
The Frenchman
by James Jung
Over salad, the Frenchman asked me about work and what I did.
Story of the Week
The Gambler
by Morgan Talty
“I know, I know, I shouldn’t have done it, but they had it coming.”
Fiction
The Garden of Israel Will Never Sleep
by Sandra Sidi
I’d chosen three hundred boys out of the best Israel had to offer.
Story of the Week
The Gentleman from San Francisco
by Ivan Bunin
Until now the man had not really lived, but simply existed, to be sure.
Story of the Week
The Geometry of It All
by Katy Lee
The dean’s voice was stuck in my head. Plagiarism. Expulsion.
Story of the Week
The Ghost of Lady Hobby
by Sybil Marshall
Tirelessly her arm rose and fell, till the child at last fell at her feet.
Classics
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
by Irwin Shaw
“Some men’re like that. They have to see what they’re missing.”
Fiction
The Governess
by Ron Hansen
He could not help but take her as his wife. She was a scandal.
Fall Contest Winners
The Grass Labyrinth
by Charlotte Holmes
I found myself wondering what her life had been in her widowhood.
Fiction
The Great Beyond
by Alma García
I could become something new. Improved. Like detergent.
Story of the Week
The Grey Dawn
by Patrick Kavanagh
Sitting beside a heap of steaming dung I felt in great poetic form.
Fiction
The Halverson Brothers
by Austin Smith
We’ve tried, but it seems it is in the stars for us to hate each other.
Story of the Week
The Hanging
by Lauren Markham
On that still, snowy day, Mick’s neck popped like a flaming log.
Fall Contest Winners
The Healer in the Motel
by Millicent Dillon
You know how good she has always been at hiding herself.
Fiction
The High Place I Go
by Skip Horack
My husband screws around. Not much and not often, but I know.
Story of the Week
The High Woods
by Jessica Van Dessel
“Folks need other folks, that’s all I mean. Especially here in the Ohio.”
Fiction
The Horse
by Mary Morris
Luther always had his eye on the back fence, as if he was like an animal.
Story of the Week
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
by D. H. Lawrence
So long as there was money, the girl felt established, and brutally proud.
Story of the Week
The Indianness
by Geeta Tewari
I went for a natural, “I look pretty even when I’m giving birth,” look.
Story of the Week
The Ivory Hotel
by Julia Lichtblau
I have three girls from my previous marriages, but she beats them all.