Fiction
Story of the Week
At first he was mortified. Another person harboured ill will towards him.
Story of the Week
You’ve seen her almost every day, going to and from the gardens.
Fiction
The damn dog has been brainwashed. He doesn’t know
us anymore.
us anymore.
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“Fuck you,” I said, but it was hard to say it with any meaning.
Fiction
Not the Olympics, the guard said. Just chuck yourself down the tube.
Fiction
There were classes where you became a family. It was a kind of love affair.
Story of the Week
They had been good girls. They stood by him when he killed a man.
Fiction
We began to obsess over water, where it came from, where it was going.
Fiction
Her cheek was like a plum about to burst and you had to close your eyes.
Fiction
I’ve got my hands around the man’s legs when I notice the blood.
Story of the Week
You slouched on the couch, naked, in front of the air conditioner.
Story of the Week
She was painting a bedroom, trying to be a good mother, wife, Catholic.
Story of the Week
“O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!”
Six-Word Stories
The joy and anguish of youth, captured in two six-word stories.
Story of the Week
It was the way of the world: everybody wanted someone else.
Story of the Week
Dr. Zee knows his son is struggling up out of some chemical fog.
