Stories of the Week: 2011–2012

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  People only see that side of him. He is still a boy, learning to be a man.

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  His looks were Russian. He was surrounded by mystery.

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  A dangerous heat came from him, the heat of some interior decay.

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  The first time she’d touched his body, it had been like going back in time.

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  She pictures her suitcase covered in blood, wishing for anything to happen.

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  Lorenzo and me, we’d squat our own building. It was the new frontier.

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  Somebody would be a lot happier if she were more like her mother.

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Story of the Week

• Lindsay AllenWe Are What We Have Lost
• Rick BassChoteau
• Wendell BerryA Matter of Necessity
• Alethea BlackEssay to Be Read at 3 a.m.
• Will BoastSitting In
• Michael DiCoccoNeonates
• Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Gambler, Part 1
• Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Gambler, Part 2
• Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Gambler, Part 3
• Jennifer duBoisA Partial History of Lost Causes
• Pete FrommBallet
• Melanie GideonWife 22
• Susan GlaspellFrom A to Z
• Simon HanStar of the River Opera
• Adrianne HarunSwallow
• Nadia IbrashiA Lebanese Feast
• Jens Peter JacobsenMrs. Fonss
• Kate Rutledge JaffeHer Lazy-Brained Boy
• Marc KaufmanIs It Okay
  to Be Okay Again?
• Martha Weinman LearThe Comfort Zone
• Don LeeOrientation
• Eric LeMayResistible
• W. Somerset MaughamMackintosh
• Sue MellHouse-sitting
• H. L. MenckenThe Declaration of Independence in American
• Peter OrnerFirst Love
• Ota PavelCarp for the Wehrmacht
• Matt PavelichAim High Olongapo
• Nathan PooleSilas
• Andrew PorterIn Between Days
• Annie ProulxHeart Songs
• Aleksandr PushkinThe Shot
• Natalie RogersThe Wicked Girl of Kowloon City
• Robin RommDigging
• James SalterA Sport and a Pastime
• Gordon SauerThe Waterwheel
• J. Kevin ShushtariAll Good Here
• Ilana SichelNeighborly Favors
• Terese SvobodaMr. Schmeckler
• Mary SwanBurning Boy—1916
• Joselyn TakacsFlares of Little Warning
• Philip TateStrangers
• Justin TaylorClark the Saint
• Scott TuckerShore Ting
• Deborah-Anne TunneyWeekend
• Mark TwainCuring a Cold
• Mark TwainRobert Burns
• Stacy WakefieldA Place of Our Own
• Evelyn WalshBirthday Girl
• Kathleen WheatonFlames
• Jennifer Duffield WhiteLetters from a Prisoner
• Spencer WiseWork
• Olga ZilberbourgA Dark and Empty Corner