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Stories

Story of the Week
The stories of terror continued well after the tsunami had passed.
Poetry
Owen falls. Like a dummy. Like he’s dead even before he dies.
Narrative Outloud
Iherde ich holde grete tale, an owle and one niyhtingale.
Readers' Narratives
Poem of the Week
Indifferent day. Sparrow fretting for rain gathers grass and seeds.
Nonfiction
Eating a raw oyster is like exchanging a soul kiss with the sea.
Readers' Narratives
My cheeks burned with the shame of being a girl with little English.
Nonfiction
The danger was my own carelessness, and now I was waist deep in it.
Poetry
We are everlasting. A friend is a friend is a friend in a string of lives.
Nonfiction
When we wake up, the five windows and the French door are full of light.
Story of the Week
I’m trying to decide if I’m too cold to be curious, when the box meows.
iPoems
For years I thought this light was love, or God, but now I know it’s fear.
Poetry
It could be our baby. Her eyebrow, its perfect arc, the pale blue vein.
Narrative Outloud
She did something few girls had ever done with him. She laughed.
Narrative Outloud
He thought of the love that had filled the great central chamber of his life.
Poetry
It was the year we learned to wash our hands. That was one lesson.
Fiction
Another girl like an origami crane, given to a reckless boy who unfolds it.
Story of the Week
Even in death, my mother had to make things difficult for me.
Fiction
The only stories we tell ourselves are the ones we need to survive.
Poetry
Instead of stained glass, give us an oil slick on the New Jersey turnpike.
Poetry
It was here—over the highway—where my mother got confused.
Fiction
The beer and the kissing and the lateness of the hour had got to me.
Poetry
My daughter swallows arrows of sunlight on her way to the grave.
Fiction
After the password was given, the question remained. My name.
Fiction
Now he was all out of dreams, out of rage, expectations, and money too.
Poetry
Doisneau might have eyed and shot us for how brazenly we kissed.
First & Second Looks
Guillaumot knew his own creation would outlive the city of Paris.