Fiction

    “Teacher, Anna is pretending to sleep again!” “Anna, pay attention to my lecture! “You dare ignore me! “I’m marching you down to the principal right now. “Read your...

  Translated from the Spanish by Tyler Gebauer "The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he does not understand us,...

    It is no use saying no, she means to go. Even at eight, Mehrunissa shows a stubbornness Noor can recognise. The same mad determination...

    He was dreaming about baseball when a line drive slammed into his jaw. Noah’s eyelids shot open, and his pupils adjusted to the harsh...

  One set of tracks curl out in one direction, the other set in another. Not a "v" exactly, more like the curling leaves at...

    On the night of the long hard day when their son, Jason, abandoned by his wife, returned home with his two sons, Peggy Gorey...

    She was a working woman and a homemaker. After a long day at work, she was driving back home and thinking about the calls...

    “Just think…if this goes well…we’ll die like this,” he said, as they lay entangled in the afterglow of amazing sex. She laughed, knowing exactly what...

    The red star on a grinning policeman’s hat matched his star-studded, red epaulettes. A passing truck’s noise helped me “ignore” that cop’s whistling attempt...

    The two weeks the Tang minister Fang Xuan-ling stole from his work in the capital to visit the poet/peasant Chen Hsi-wei in Chiangling were...