Fiction/Nonfiction: fiction
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1612 W. Washington
A ghost story with beautiful turns of phrase, like this one: “At first, we’re haunted softly, like a pink sky overtaken by the creeping evening.”
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History Lessons
A really jarring piece about how quickly we forget the violence and horrifying things from the past
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What My Fingers Did
When you finish this one read it again, the beginning will hit differently the second time.
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81 Buddhas
A woman goes on a pilgrimage to seek forgiveness, and the crushing backstory that led her there.
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But She’s A Flame
June 2024 short story competition winner: a tragic death complicates a couples’ first anniversary together
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The Aweigh Hymn
“This is not a story about boys ripped apart. It is not a story of how a Daddy took one boy and left the other behind. Not a tale of a Daddy so embittered that he kept his sons apart to punish his wife, himself. This is not that story.“
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I Might Have Imagined the Moon
Winner of the 2024 Gwyl Anglesey short fiction competition: the narrator fantasizes about saving a wilting relationship
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Unlikeable Female Protagonists
It’s a stunner of a short story about the way society values women by their appearance.
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The Great Silence
“It’s no coincidence that “aspiration” means both hope and the act of breathing.” This is an older story, it’s included in his excellent collection Exhalations. It reminds me of Benjamin Labatut, weaving science and fiction together with an emphasis on soul.
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The Private Investigator Balances the Scales
This is super short but has a serious twist to it that I’ve been thinking about since I read it.