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A snapshot of loneliness and vice in this powerful six-word story.

Climbing

Purple planets, dirt stars. Imagine the carom in the hall, how it sounded.

Clips from Our Interview with Jennifer Egan

Audio clips of Pultizer Prize winner Jennifer Egan on her work.

Colorado Road Trip

Eszter Marosszeky and David Matheson

Constance Ring

Of course the despicable wretch would beg her to forgive him again.

Cooking Pasta for My Parents

There’s nothing left to do but crush the garlic, check the water on the stove.

Coracle Means a Small Vessel, a Boat

The cherry tree’s trance of petals tumbled bit by bit to the sidewalk.

Country

There it was, the urge to hurt one’s neck by craning toward the dazzle.

Cracks

Their marriage had dwindled to a separation and a running joke.

Cricket

What that truth is doesn’t matter, finally, because of your persistence.

Crispin Poems

Knowing that it will end i saw myself again at the fair popping balloons

Day of Abandonment

I was born hating paths, apostasy. We came alive wrong for union.

Days of Summer

“If a man wanted, he could be anything and not come back.”

Death in the Woods

He got his wife off a German farmer, for whom he went to work one day.

Death of a Dog and Other Poems

Our dog had held down what we had by pressing his belly to the floors.

December Was Inconsolable and It Hadn’t Even Arrived Yet

It’s been months since the cat died and still we find her hair.

Dementia Bus

Some days he thinks he has patients to see, meetings to attend.

Denaturalization: An Elegy for Mr. Vaishno Das Bagai, an American

Sometimes they revert to trickery, apple their venom with a smile.

Denial

What was happening? All she wants is for Teddy to fuck her silly.

Dependents and Other Poems

shoulds & shouldn’ts unwound now to dids & didn’t

Deutschkurse

Close mist around window. I attempt gender. Deposit each letter.

Devotion

Not every fate was alike. Not everyone ended up paired off in love.

Digging

Mikey said the hole wouldn’t lead to China, but he was frequently wrong.

Disturbance

The neighbor needs his blaring-music his car-cocoon of sound

Do I Know You?

She had instinct for seeing what she could make happen.

Doing His Laundry for the First Time

She holds the shirt to her face and inhales. With a start she pulls away.

Donnaiolo

“There’s got to be some way through this,” he says, “without losing her.”

Door-to-Door

Do you really want to live in this filth? And me answering, Well, yes.

Drift

I take what I want, and have ever since what I want disappeared.

Dublin Christmas

The streets were filled with couples and families on their way home.