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Fiction

Fiction
Old Friends
by Tom Lakin
Dance with you? I said after a moment. That’s your dare?
Fiction
Old Lovegood Girls
by Gail Godwin
She had come to the scene where she needed to get them in bed.
Classics
Old Mortality
by Katherine Anne Porter
Was he taking them to the races? If so, they were happy to see him.
Photography & Art
Old Stories and Other Paintings
by Lincoln Perry
Eros, myth, life, and literature in brilliant paintings by Lincoln Perry.
Story of the Week
Old Will Road
by Renée Thompson
For days after she left him, he roamed the house, unable to function.
Story of the Week
On Fire
by Wilhemina Austin
It was the stove I ran to check when the smoke alarm went off.
First-Person Winners
On Principle
by Gina Ochsner
Mother had always told me that everybody loves a self-absorbed ass.
Story of the Week
On the Way to the Dacha
by Josip Novakovich
Enjoy the prison. It’s very impressive, worth spending some time!
Story of the Week
One at a Time
by Polly Dugan
Her top lip lingered behind, pressed between his. They were soaked.
iStories
One Day
by Reynold Junker
He was reading Our Town. She studied the departure board.
iStories
One Such as This
by Michael Croley
Later in the pale of dawn your hair brushed across my forearm.
Story of the Week
Only a Lover
by Kay Exley Gunkel
Order and gardens. Penelope liked things to grow just as they would.
Story of the Week
Oppressive Nights
by Sean Wilson
Not long after Christmas, the smoke really hit Melbourne.
iStories
Or Else
by Leo Goodyear
“Jesus Christ,” Dad said, after the counselor spelled it out for him.
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iStories
Ordinary Time
by Mike Miner
A lawyer, senator, judge; laws are what he lives for. His left eye squints involuntarily.
Six-Word Stories
Orgasm
by S.L. Wisenberg
Here's a great way to tell the comedy of sex in only six words.
Story of the Week
Orientation
by Don Lee
Joshua was well versed in things to which I was not yet privy, like sex.
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Fiction
Osby
by Josh Weil
He’s gonna change the way we farm around here. Make it more like India.
Fiction
OTP
by Ann Beattie
Is there some one way a guy should be on his wedding day, dickwad?
Story of the Week
Our Fairy Stories
by Madelena Grossmann
Loss. That word echoed in my ears as my eyes ranged around the garden.
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Story of the Week
Our Neighbors the Bells
by Liz Moore
Our neighbors the Bells are watching, watching us when we play outside.
Fiction
Out to Lunch
by Marian Thurm
“Out to lunch,” she learns from an older colleague, is a euphemism.
Story of the Week
Outside
by Caelainn Bradley
The architect is twice my age and owns an ivy-covered house.
Story of the Week
Outside Elko
by Porter Fox
The sedan clipped their front bumper and pitched Bill’s car into a slide.
Fiction
Overcast
by Richard Bausch
Eight years, and she was ready to call it quits. They were both ready.
Story of the Week
Pain Management
by Grace Bianchetti
I’m trying to decide if I’m too cold to be curious, when the box meows.
Fiction
Paper Boats
by Gina Wohlsdorf
Another girl like an origami crane, given to a reckless boy who unfolds it.
Story of the Week
Paper Pledges
by Jemimah Wei
Even in death, my mother had to make things difficult for me.
Fiction
Papi
by Jenzo DuQue
The only stories we tell ourselves are the ones we need to survive.
Fiction
Parasols
by Charlotte Forbes
The beer and the kissing and the lateness of the hour had got to me.