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Fiction

Spring Contest Winners
I Would Be Happy to Leave This Asylum
by Scott Tucker
Protect your hands. You can always get by if your hands aren’t broken.
Fiction
I.S.O.
by Antonya Nelson
If dating taught Cory anything, it was that he needed an ex-wife.
Fiction
Ice
by Andre Dubus III
Somewhere along the way her husband had gotten scared.
Nonfiction
If I Owned a Gun
by Andre Dubus III
It was an act that made me feel safer but also somehow more imperiled.
Fiction
Ice Cream
by Rae Canaan
“The other kids. They’re making ice cream. I’ll show you, come on.”
iStories
Idolatry
by Sherman Alexie
Marie was Indian, and everything Indian required patience.
Fiction
If I Could Speak Chinese
by Elizabeth Benedict
On the small of my daughter’s back is a two-inch tattoo. MADE IN CHINA.
Story of the Week
If the Body Makes a Sound
by Tryphena L. Yeboah
Silence, a weapon of choice, hung between them, cut through the air.
Story of the Week
Iggy, Summer
by Debra Jo Immergut
The excursion brought shape to that entire scruff-covered summer.
Story of the Week
Imaginary Intangible Thing
by Emily Lake
They met on the app in April, shortly after her twenty-ninth birthday.
Fiction
Immigration
by Richard Bausch
Oh, how did people do it? How did they find some way to be happy?
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.
Story of the Week
In a Jar
by Morgan Talty
My father then got partials implanted, which were later punched out.
Story of the Week
In Between Days
by Andrew Porter
The first time she’d touched his body, it had been like going back in time.
Six-Word Stories
In Country
by Robert Olen Butler
"In County": A new six-word story by Robert Olen Butler.
Fiction
In Other Words
by Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh
Story of the Week
In Sloane Street
by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Pushing by the man, he ran down the street towards the station.
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.
Story of the Week
In the Land of Many Enemies
by James Welch
Bad luck, like the white-scabs disease, can infect others.
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.
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.
Fiction
In the Water
by Brenden Willey
It lay slumped where they’d dragged it, a fright of an animal.
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.
Story of the Week
Indira
by Doug Sovern
Everyone roared at her wit. Ravenous children prowled like tigers.
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Fiction
Inevitability
by Karen Peterson
He picked up the knife I had there, and said he’d kill me if ever I told.
Story of the Week
Intervals
by Gregory Brown
He thought about kissing her. Then he decided that she was just lonely.
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Love Story Contest
Interview with a Moron
by Elizabeth Stuckey-French
Interviewer said he had no intention of stealing anything from Subject.
Fiction
Into the River Again
by Stephanie Grant
My mother used to cry in church seeing a child walk down the aisle.