"Ursula Hegi's new novel, Stones from the River, is forthcoming from Poseidon in
March 1994. She has published two other novels, Floating in My Mother's Palm ..."
"Peter Lefcourt Closure very Wednesday during the season I drove Edgar Dent out
to Santa Anita. He liked to have a bowl of chili in the Clubhouse Grill, ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Robert Schirmer Blackout He stared up toward the blazing sky, following the hawk's weightless flight over a breakfast-cereal billboard and out of sight, leaving Sam again to his life, such as it was. Kathryne Young Roadrunner My grandmother's house floated like a wayward sailboat on an ocean of fine-grained dirt, scrub brush, and yucca trees. Crisp desert mornings, we s ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:David McDannaldStealing Chickens I don't know why he said such things. You have a principle of being honest and then there's the hard reality of your mother having a heart attack. R. Cross Glioblastoma "You're totally f--ed." "As in dying?" "As in that, yes." Wesley Straton Earthquake Whisky When he tells these stories, they could be from someone else's life: in New Zea ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Amy X. Wang Gravity Jamie is busy thinking of skyscrapers, of standing atop tall, tall ladders and cranes, and what it would be like to lift the beams into place, again and again. Perri Klass Your Unhappiest Child Sometimes it seems to me that we are all of us busy pretending to enjoy ourselves while really, we are worrying about our grown-up children. Les Myers Beth Ni ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Adam Soto The Box And Teenesee says, "Yes, I am the woman who appears when grown men cry out for their mothers. I am the ferryman who rows them to the other side." Aurora Brackett Beginnings My mom had been in the hospital a long time. She says her parents were trying to hide her away until the sixties were over, until Carter was in office. Lillian Li Parts of Summer He ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:David Mizner Your Swim Daisy's eating with Jonathan's two girls, using the cooler as a table, and even Sammy joins. Jo laughs at something Frances said. Our families are falling in love. Miranda July Interview by David Naimon I thought it would be the hardest thing I'd ever done, because everyone says that and people are always not finishing their novels. It is hard, bu ..."
"Literary Short stories by established and emerging writers.John Thornton Williams Darling, Keith, the Subway Girl, and Jumping Joe Henry Darling kept his head down. Probably none of those girls had been in that fraternity basement last night, where he'd fought another homeless man for a fifth of liquor, but he didn't want to take the chance. Claire Luchette Full In New York, he shows you the Angel of Bethesda in Central Park, and, with ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Lee Montgomery Window Spring was sneaky that year Angela ran away. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum The Bears All of my senses opened in recognition. The mixed scent of newsprint and butter, the muted ticking of the modern cuckoo clock on the wall, the enamel tea kettle gleaming atop the immense stove, the marmalade still sharp in my mouth: home. Jon Chopan Slaughter That was the year it s ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers Julian Zabalbeascoa Gernika Near us, a woman held her dead child as though it was only sleeping. Nobody approached her to tell her differently. Stephen Langlois Uncle Jerry At least once a week she called each of her five brothers, relaying various bits of insignificant information from one to the other. My uncles probably dreaded these calls, but for my mother it created the il ..."
"Kimberly Bunker Number 41 That place is infinity, the same infinity that requires all this living and dying and living. George Saunders Interview by David Naimon My idea is that life is so strange and so unknowable and so beautiful that you might have to resort to extraordinary means to really get some of that on the page. Mark Hitz Shadehill She hated the place. Hated the wind, the dust, the bad water pressure, but believed, correctly, ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Joseph Chavez Stowaways Marshall says it was like possibility itself. Life like an old clock, wound up after three years of silence and set ticking once again. "Yes!" Steven says. "Exactly." This is the opening he was looking for. Siamak Vossoughi The X-250 Mr. Rezai had melted, like a man falling in love, only in a movie that was too sentimental to be believed. George had never ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Jonathan Freiberger Pinsky Gets It Right And this was probably the only tangible realization that had proved to be of any practical use whatsoever arising from seven years in analysis: that everything could be traced back to one critical event. David Goguen Old Teeth I ask her what happened to her box of stuff, and she goes back inside to get it. I'm just trying to be a good guy ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Karen Malley Roof Dog "You fell perfectly. If everyone fell like that no one would ever get hurt." "I hit my head. That hurt." "You have a strong head. You're American. You drink a lot of milk." Sanja Jagesic Bibby Challenge I don't like how my mom packs me homemade bread for lunch. All the German students have nice sliced brown store-bought bread. I throw my lunch away most day ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writersExcerpts:Matt Lapata Ohio Home "Your aunt's drunk. Your grandma's catching up. There's mail for you. And Tony's here. He's nice. It's good to see you. Welcome home." And that's how she talks, Mom, in semisweet machine gun rat-a-tat rounds. Claire Vaye Watkins The Archivist Carly lost one of her fallopian tubes to an ectopic pregnancy when she was my age. Between that and her husb ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Stephanie Soileau Cheniere Caminada Under one marker, etched with only a year, 1893, were some from almost every clan, Curoles and Terrebonnes and Comeauxs and Ledets the founding families who had settled this ragged fractal of wetland all tossed together in a pit by exhausted survivors who then gathered what little was left and moved on, farther up the bayou, farther from the ..."
"Literary short stories! Here's a taste of this issue: Kim Brooks The Shelter The air was hot, but he could not tell if the heat emanated down from the sky or up from the earth. He stepped over a dead man who was wearing a fine wool jacket, holding onto its lapels as if it might do him some good. Where had he gotten a jacket like that? Scott Alan Anderson Saints Alive A bleached-blond woman in a sequined sweatshirt appeared at the door. ..."
"Glimmer Train presents literary short stories by award-winning and upcoming writers. Here are some excerpts: Cheri Johnson Guralnick Whenever one of those little wolves came in on the same pitch as another, the first wolf lifted or dropped its voice to make it sound as if the pack were growing all the time. Susan Perabo Why They Run the Way They Do Sweetie, Tommy says miserably. And right then it becomes apparent that one of us is goi ..."