"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Gregory J. Wolos Boy Strangling Goose But the terrifying, breathtaking span of those spread wings had stopped Reilly dead--he couldn't even raise his cane against the wild thing's attack. Andra Nicolescu The Dead Romanians have this weird thing about the dead, you see. Until the twenty-first century, we kept them in our living rooms. We couldn't let them go. Who wants t ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Ingrid HillPavilionA tent maker has just completed a job for the army, the construction of several officers' tents for field maneuvers. He is carrying brown canvas, a color just a little too rich, a little too beautiful, for the army. But dye lots are irregular. What can one do? Jennifer Anne MosesDuty FreeHe remembered a time when he was maybe eleven or twelve when he' ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Hasanthika SirisenaThird-Country NationalAnura's new home was a tent. It housed twelve other TCNs: four from Sri Lanka, three from Nepal, one from Nigeria, three from India, one from Bangladesh. Carrie BrownBombVera and Christy's mother were childhood chums. Their mothers had been friends before them, and there was some way in which Christy's mother had been indebted as a girl ..."
"Danielle Lavaque-Manty The Safety of Milk She'd begun saying this soon after their wedding, whenever she grew anxious about something he planned to do. William Luvaas Ashes Rain Down Ashes pile in drifts against fences, turn our lawns calcium white, make a foul, acrid soup of water in dogs' bowls. They sift down collars, creep through walls, and form a fine pellicle over the furniture. Al Sim Soledad Enough sunlight filtered in for Ri ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers. Vi Khi Nao Herman & Margaret My father loved to bake, and he was lanky. He said he wished he could have like a hundred children. Christopher Marnach Death Week at the Funeral Card Company There were slow times over the years, but heart attacks and house fires and America's penchant for foreign wars kept Trauer-Marsch in the black. Perry Janes Night Movers The son of an insomnia ..."
"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: Jonathan Muzzall Killer and Crud Get Married Killer said, "I want to thank you again for accepting my apology without any fuss." Alexandra Chang Tomb Sweeping Day I watched him glide into the sea, first to his ankles, then to his thighs. He stood still in one spot for some time--seconds or minutes, I'm not sure--and then began to sway gently from left to right. Katheri ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers. Excerpts:Akil Kumarasamy Brown Smurf My brother had weak lungs and swam poorly, but he wanted to one day swim across the English Channel. The notion struck him after he watched a documentary on Florence May Chadwick. Jo Walton Interview by David Naimon Science fiction is not about rocket ships whiz-bang! It's about what these things do to us, the us who are taking the trains, t ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writersExcerpts: Peter Parsons No One There, No One to Talk to, Nothing to Say I feel I have to bless everyone else I know who has died, and I start naming grandparents, relatives, friends, and how about those who haven't died. Alicia Oltuski Let's Take It from the Top "Don't call Dom," my father said to me. I wished he hadn't. Dom had known what to do the time Dad forgot how to swallow ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.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 was goin ..."
"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.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.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 ..."