Fiction

Issue 27 Our Fragile Environment
A Big Empty

by Rhonda Browning White.
“We hadn’t talked since we left our West Virginia homeplace over two hours ago, both of us teary-eyed…”

Issue 38 2020 Prize winners
Taxi Ride

by Azin Neishaboori.
“It was around noon on a spring day in the month of May when Ms. Abedi appeared at the intersection of Shahrara and Sattar Khan Streets on the west side of Tehran.”

Issue 37 A Good Life
Peer Review

by Kristen Swan Morrison.
“There’s an infiltration in the group. I sense it. I see it a mile away.”

Girls, at Play

by Celeste Ng.
“This is how we play the game: pink means kissing; red means tongue.”

Issue 15 Abilities and Disabilities
Your Quiet Affair

by Christine Caya.
“Your affair with Connie Gervais starts the way you imagine most do.”

Issue 7
The Plagiarist

By Hollis Seamon.
“’Why?’ Althea leaned toward the splotchy-pale student who sat in her small office chair, his wide khaki thighs overflowing its seat.”

Issue 14 2008 Prize Winners
A Vehicular Situation

by Maija Stromberg.
“’Well, here’s the good Dr. Kaspar stuck out in a field in the middle of nowhere,’ LeeAnn said.”

Issue 9
The Great Imitator

by Leslie Patterson.
“I am a disease. My very existence poisons my father’s life.”

Issue 9
The Levitron

by Robert Oldshue.
“Let me tell you one thing: these know-it-alls who come around hawking computerized this and that to make Shady Rest work like the Holiday Inn have never worked in a nursing home.”