FICTION
Fiction
Short stories by established and emerging voices from around the world.
THE GRAIN ELEVATOR
“In the elder night when wheat hide their spotty heads below their wings, we climb the grain elevator…”
by R.M. Fradkin
ESCUDEROS
“'Silencio, everyone, listen,' Señor Mejias said, looking across his living room filled with young men and women holding the materials to make shields, masks, and banners."
by L. Vocem
A GOD SPEAKS AT THE BORDER
“My story involves a mother and a child left at the border.”
by Evan Burkin
THE WISEWOMAN TELLS A STORY ABOUT COMMERCE BEFORE RENOUNCING WORLDLY POSSESSIONS:
“A rich man wanted to be richer, so he sold stars.”
by Brad Aaron Modlin
THE PATENT GUY
“Mirza was a brilliant scientist."
by Gemini Wahhaj
LEST SHE GO OFF
“When dad left to go live with a Ruby Tuesday’s waitress, the house felt dank and cavernous..."
by Meera Rohit Kumbhani
FOUR PREPOSITIONS
“When the bald spot formed, he started wearing a yarmulke, exactly the right size."
by Mark Mayer
GUEST OF HONOR
“Creating stresses in the social fabric was one of Fräulein Agata’s great joys, so when the general’s friend, a society lady, asked her to bring the school’s top students, my German teacher brought us instead."
by Katya Apekina
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THE LAST THURSDAY OF THE CENTURY
“As winter nears its end, the sky acts like a lunatic, its behavior mirroring the chaos of Iranian lives preparing for Nowruz."
by Parastoo Geranmayeh
BRANCHES OF THE SERVICE
“The attaché looked out the window and knew that something was wrong about the wing. He absolutely knew."
by Fortunato Salazar
STRAYS
“There was something in the way the kid worked, as if pushing around stacks of pressure-treated two by sixes in the heat wasn’t actually hard, as if the wood..."
by Gregory Brown
CYPRUS
“Cyprus was my Amazonas. Humidity uprooted all kinds of fragrances from the scorched earth and hung them in the air like clothes on the line."
by Anca Fodor