Fiction
I shit you not. Right in front of the elevator that spits you into our hospice, there is—get ready for this—a harpist. I mean, isn’t that like a teensy bit premature?
We’re not saying our boys are angels, … we’re just saying that we the mothers didn’t need to teach our boys not to rape.
It was a shame anyone had to go to Carville, a pity there was no cure, but Gar had been to war and knew how little fairness had to do with anything.
After he brushed his teeth, he raised his wings in the bathroom to examine his smoky gray underfeathers.
When the bell finally rings, waste no time. Grab your Kipling from the cubby and head straight to the front of the carpool line.
The book is dazzling and groundbreaking. The author’s bright, spare prose engages us intensely with her characters and their relationships.
Erin Cherry reads “In This Skin,” a story by Emma Pattee
Krysta Rodriguez reads “Agate Beach,” a story by Molly Giles
Ingeborg Riedmaier reads “We Knew a World,” a story by Jennifer Solheim