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Fiction

Classics
The Jockey
by Carson McCullers
His hands stiffened so that the fingers curled inward like gray claws.
Fiction
The Killer
by Ron Hansen
The Kid came back from the post trader’s store with a six-shooter.
Fiction
The Kingdom
by Skip Horack
“With me for an uncle you don’t never need to be afraid of him, baby.”
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 1
by Skip Horack
Even if he lost her he would never disparage her, never not love her.
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 2
by Skip Horack
Now, with new orders to carry out, he’d been restored to factory settings.
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 3
by Skip Horack
Clark and Robertson got a reset, and Tuyen would get a baby. But Mikey?
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 4
by Skip Horack
L’chaim. To lives both bygone and ongoing, and to the truths I choose to believe.
Classics
The Lady with the Little Dog
by Anton Chekhov
Gurov reflected, “it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make her acquaintance.”
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Fiction
The Lamp of Truth
by Octavia Randolph
“We have heard that this blackened smear is art. We do not see it.”
Story of the Week
The Landfill
by Anthony Marra
The interrogator was both man and deity, prophet and god.
Story of the Week
The Langham Club
by Spencer Wise
We backed up and I kept ripping it at his face, trying to knock his teeth out.
Story of the Week
The Lapedo Child
by Suzanne Feldman
The blood had been soaked up in sawdust—“this is hell.”
Story of the Week
The Last Artist in New York
by Polly Frost
Living as the last artist in Manhattan: it’s the ultimate test of commitment.
Story of the Week
The Last Language
by Jennifer duBois
I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.
Classics
The Lesson of the Master
by Henry James
Kids interfere with perfection. Wives interfere. Marriage interferes.
Fiction
The Letters
by Nicholas Delbanco
The letter both pleased and disturbed her. Why did he get in touch?
Story of the Week
The Little One Need Not Come
by Anne de Marcken
The house of our relationship is a fort. Blanket fort. Tree fort.
Story of the Week
The Little Weaver of Duleek Gate
by Samuel Lover
It was up airly and down late with him, and the loom never standin’ still.
Story of the Week
The Lives of Philosophers
by Kevin Brockmeier
He cannot imagine the shape his life would take without her.
Fiction
The Lonely
by Holly Wilson
I tell her I’m a woman now, that my boobs just popped in.
Fiction
The Long Consequence
by Richard Bausch
There in front of the house was his son’s ratty old Thunderbird.
Fiction
The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday
by David Corbett
The sense of power that flights of temper evoke will betray you.
Fiction
The Lucky Bastard
by N. Jane Kalu
It was on a mid-June morning that the stranger first called.
Fiction
The Lusitania
by Robert Olen Butler
A coldness bumped a last kiss upon my cheek, a good-bye kiss sliding across.
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Classics
The Man and the Snake
by Ambrose Bierce
The eyes looked into his own with a meaning, a malign significance.
Fiction
The Man Arguing in the Kitchen
by Gina Ochsner
Five dark shapes loped after the car. Dogs—as far as the eye could see.
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Story of the Week
The Man Who Would Be King
by Rudyard Kipling
They would find certain and awful death in Afghanistan.
Fiction
The Man Without a Shadow
by Joyce Carol Oates
This is not deception. This is a subtle way of conditioning.
Fiction
The Maneater
by T. C. Boyle
Here was rot and immemorial night. And death. Death above all.
Fiction
The Manzanos
by Kirstin Valdez Quade
I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.