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Fiction

Story of the Week
The Pink Door
by Guadalupe Nettel
The little door would appear in my mind’s eye, except that now it was ajar.
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Story of the Week
The Pizza in New Jersey
by Cathy Carr
He’ll probably try to get her in the sack, just to stay in practice.
Story of the Week
The Poet
by Hermann Hesse
I know quite well that I’m still a beginner and have a long way to go.
iStories
The Prayer Book
by Marsha Rabe
I thought fleetingly he might give it to me, as he knew I wanted it.
Fiction
The Prepper
by Morgan Talty
I had to prepare. I had to be able to save us from what was coming.
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The Promised Land
by Katie Cortese
She must know she was a mistake, what they call now a surprise.
Story of the Week
The Race Card
by Dennis McFarland
The features of the girl in the bathing suit suggest a mixed-race origin.
Fiction
The Rage of the Squat King
by Rick Bass
What would make a sane person want to watch such blood sport?
Fiction
The Saltcutter’s Wife
by Rick Bass
The pain lithified to numbness, and she recalled the time of his courtship.
Story of the Week
The Red Dress
by Emma Brankin
“I hope the scumbag rots in jail,” he yelled into the quiet night.
Story of the Week
The Red Studebaker
by Barry Gifford
If your father were here, he wouldn’t put up with your insolence.
Story of the Week
The Religious Experience
by Barry Gifford
“For the entire time I was there I couldn’t get that out of my head.”
Story of the Week
The Rembrandt
by Edith Wharton
One felt all the poor lady’s barriers were falling save her manner.
Fiction
The Rescue
by Joyce Carol Oates
By chance you saw. So much had become chance in your life.
Story of the Week
The Return
by Patricia Sammon
He resumed his nightly practice of writing without being able to see.
Story of the Week
The Rickshaw Wallah
by Jeannie Tseng
He was last in Calcutta more than fifteen years ago, for his mother’s funeral. Han Ru feels something vaguely discomfiting, followed by a surge of recognition.
iStories
The Right Fielder
by Tom Lakin
Far below, the right fielder circles and stares, mitt raised to the sky.
Fiction
The Shortstop
by Tom Lakin
I understood that for us there would be no mourning the shortstop.
Fiction
The Rock
by Ann Beattie
She had a situation where she’d lost her driver’s license for speeding.
Fiction
The Rooms
by Susan Minot
In the rooms you picked up what you liked, like shells on a beach.
Fiction
The Royal Reykjavík Sex Tour
by Scott Spencer
We were in a play about affection. We were in a play about sex.
Fiction
The Runaways
by Elizabeth Spencer
“Now, just what brought you down all this way?” they wanted to know.
Fiction
The Russian Tank Commander, the Capitalist, and the Cover Girl
by Josh Haven
“I’m in a Soviet tank in Siberia and I need to know if you know Nina Bowyer.”
Fiction
The Salaryman
by Krys Lee
It almost makes you cry, to know that you are no longer needed.
Fiction
The Saturday Morning Institute of Human Survival
by Carol Dines
The first time the world demanded more of me, I was twenty-nine.
Story of the Week
The Sentimentality of William Tavener
by Willa Cather
It takes a strong woman to make any sort of success in the West.
Fiction
The Servants’ Quarters
by Lynn Freed
Ma didn’t believe in slapping. It was what common people did.
Fiction
The Session
by T. C. Boyle
Joanie’s face was something she’d borrowed from Miró, from Picasso.
Story of the Week
The Shaker
by Christine Heuner
My friend Angela, who is also my roommate, got me into stripping.
Story of the Week
The Shot
by Aleksandr Pushkin
His looks were Russian. He was surrounded by mystery.