Fiction/Nonfiction: fiction

  • This Mine of Mine

    One of the weirdest stories I’ve read recently, starts like this and gets weirder as it goes: You wouldn’t guess it looking at me now, but I had a pretty ordinary childhood and early adulthood. My parents weren’t rich, but we weren’t poor either. I grew up in one of those suburbs where every house…

  • We Have Little Time Left

    A tender and sad piece about a woman saying goodbye to her dying husband.

  • By My Father’s Hand

    The first sentence reads, “I like to carry my father’s hand with me.” Every subsequent sentence begs more questions than it answers.

  • Clunkers

  • Girl Scout

    A story about a first date that contains a ton of charm and a surprising amount of tension

  • Alchemy

    It starts with: “We are imprisoned by our bones, entombed at birth by flesh”, and doesn’t get less grim from there.

  • Inheriting It

    A young guy goes home from NYC to rural, depressed Tennessee. Great setting and characters

  • The Astronaut

    My note after reading this simply says “holy shit“.

  • The Thing

    A great narrator’s voice on a fishing trip, and a lot more: So, this creature comes in and it looks like a caterpillar if the caterpillar was nine pounds and pink and gelatinous as a huge earthworm with flute holes along its side in the style of a woodwind instrument or an ocarina.

  • Copperfield