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Stories

Nonfiction
In Love
by Amy Bloom
Those moments are all I want. I want a life of this. He sighs and I sigh.
iPoems
In New York
by Kristina Bicher
It’s raining concrete. I bite my grief wetly. Who will test these chains?
Fiction
In Other Words
by Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh
Story of the Week
In Passing
by Ru Freeman
The ashes of a human being are not ash. The body burns into wood.
Poem of the Week
In Praise of the Du-Rag
by Raphael Jenkins
you a ghetto dreamcatcher under my fitted warding ghosts
In Search of Celilo
by

In Search of Celilo

I found these photos of Celilo Falls while doing research for an earlier story. . . .
Story of the Week
In Search of Inner Mongolia
by Daniel Chernin
“I want to stay in real yurts,” I said, “not yurts for Westerners.”
Story of the Week
In Sloane Street
by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Pushing by the man, he ran down the street towards the station.
Fiction
In That Time
by Richard Bausch
“Can’t you see Hemingway’s having breakfast with his grandson?”
Fiction
In the Museum of the Americas
by Richard Bausch
Divorced. Wife living with someone else. Pregnant with his child.
Nonfiction
In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters
by Joyce Carol Oates
“Happy? Nabokov died yesterday, we all move up a notch.”
Story of the Week
In the Region of Ice
by Joyce Carol Oates
He’s an excellent student. It’s just that . . . he thinks ideas are real.
Winter Contest Winners
In the Absence of Rain
by Catherine Pond
Blacked-out little angel, you shuffle home under the streetlights.
Story of the Week
In the Car before School
by Carson Fletcher Reid
She’d do anything once, to know what it was like.
Poem of the Week
In the Guise of Couplets
by M. A. Vizsolyi
Every room came furnished half-real & dead like mirrors on skin
Readers' Narratives
In the House of a Sangoma, Katatura, Namibia
by Tara W. Lumpkin
Poem of the Week
In the Kitchen
by Jean Joubert
The child writes, Child, and is amazed at this word on the page.
Poetry
In the Land of Long Distances
by Dylan Weir
Another year another almanac, a washed-out castle in the sand.
Story of the Week
In the Land of Many Enemies
by James Welch
Bad luck, like the white-scabs disease, can infect others.
First & Second Looks
In the Miro District
by Peter Taylor
Taylor measures every word, as if holding the world lightly by the throat.
Story of the Week
In the Prime of Their Lives
by Brad Watson
I was under a spell, those days. I had been ever since I’d first seen her.
Poem of the Week
In the Season of Facing Away
by Lee Colin Thomas
Some longings appear so frequently they must be instinct.
Classics
In the Shadow of the Glen
by John Synge
It’s other things than the like of you would make a person afeard.
Fiction
In the Water
by Brenden Willey
It lay slumped where they’d dragged it, a fright of an animal.
Poem of the Week
Incarnations
by Skyler Osborne
Bodies, moths, destroyers. Fear like finding a bullet in a snowman.
Poem of the Week
Incident with Nature, Late
by Marcus Wicker
I decide it’s as good a place as any to stop, pant & smell the roses—
Story of the Week
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs
We were alone in the world, and we had left dear ties behind us.
Poetry
Independence Day and Other Poems
by Elyse Fenton
The old-timer outside the guard station was knifing his own tires.
First & Second Looks
Independent People
by Halldór Laxness
Story of the Week
Indira
by Doug Sovern
Everyone roared at her wit. Ravenous children prowled like tigers.