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Fiction

Story of the Week
Six Million and One
by Barry Gifford
They come to America and their child is shot down like a wild animal.
Fiction
Sixty-five Million Years
by Richard Bausch
Perhaps he was not almost sixteen years old, but thirty-five and sick.
Story of the Week
Skin Slip
by Kaitlin Roberts
Howie and Nadine were confident they’d be among the survivors.
Story of the Week
Society
by Kaitlin Roberts
Society was imposing, like something out of an English drama.
Story of the Week
Sky an Iris
by Niamh Mac Cabe
Her will is resolute, and he knows enough not to challenge it.
Fiction
Sky Tumbling Down
by Emily Besh
The clearest memory was when his father shot a grizzly.
Story of the Week
Sledding
by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
The thing was, I didn’t care what I ate in front of a woman. Every day, I told her things I would have been too embarrassed to tell anyone else.
Fiction
Sleepy
by Anton Chekhov
Hearing the baby’s cry, Varka finds the enemy who is crushing her heart.
Fiction
Slope
by Michael Croley
In school, he was called gook, chink, and one boy called him ching-chong.
Fall Contest Winners
Slowly, Slowly, Then All at Once
by Charles Wheelan
The woman perused Irwin’s request form. “You can’t go there.”
Story of the Week
Smoke Days
by Mia O’Neill
Teddy, the new sous chef, is on fire again. It’s the second time in a week. I make a silent promise to myself never to have sex on a beach, not even with Ryan Gosling.
N30B Winners
Smoke Jumpers
by Gregory Brown
He probably had an order. Ludes, Dexis, Black Birds—who knew.
Story of the Week
Snake Oil
by Courtney Marcelo Norton
A town, wholly unknown to him until yesterday; he’s now unwrapped.
Story of the Week
Snapper
by Brian Kimberling
A Midwestern man is never without his knife. Half of us carry guns.
Fiction
Snowy
by Rick Bass
The owl was a white that could not be compromised by any other color.
Fiction
So Far Gone
by Jess Walter
Books covered every available surface and much of the floor.
Fiction
Soir Bleu
by Robert Olen Butler
The clown has taken a seat at our veranda table in absolute silence.
Story of the Week
Soldier’s Joy
by Tobias Wolff
I could shoot you and nobody would say boo. I’m within my rights.
Story of the Week
Solly’s Corner
by Janet Burroway
Try to make order in one direction, and things shoot off in another.
Story of the Week
Somehow They Get into You
by Ruchama Feuerman
His thoughts swirl around him. Maybe women aren’t women anymore.
Fiction
Someone Else Besides You
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The sight of her belly ring and the smooth, tight canopy of flesh.
Story of the Week
Something Irrevocable
by Joselyn Takacs
My father left me in the car while he was grabbing one for the road.
Spring Contest Winners
Something Left Behind
by Madelena Grossmann
On this small island, everyone knows who comes, especially who goes.
iStories
Something Lost
by Kay Eldredge
Mr. Holt had grown old since Beverly last saw him. He looked weary.
Story of the Week
Sometimes Only the Sad Songs Will Do
by David Denny
You might say I acted on instinct. All I wanted was to stop the screaming.
Spring Contest Winners
Somewhere with a Sigh
by Jonathan A. Stableford
Does he not see our likeness? Fursten seemed to see nothing.
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Story of the Week
Spelunk
by Charlie Haas
I looked up from the cave floor to see a guy pointing a handgun at us.
Story of the Week
Spot the Stations
by Pascha Sotolongo
When I wasn’t teaching social studies, I basically lived on my balcony.
Fiction
Standards
by Mary Morris
He grabbed me, groped for my hips, kissing me, smelling my hair.
Story of the Week
Staph
by Sandra Scofield
Her skin was bruised under her eyes, purple like the swollen toe.