Fiction/Nonfiction: fiction
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Sophia Goes Bowling at 3AM
Everyone had a childhood friend like Sophia, but most of those friendships didn’t go this way.
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Juice
I’d read this when it was new and forgotten about it. It’s funny throughout, with a brilliant final paragraph.
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Professor Leonora Looks Back
The narrator juxtaposes classroom lessons with other, more significant events
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The Last Faculty Meeting
a weird, slow reveal of something very unexpected during a relatable work meeting.
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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…
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We Have Little Time Left
A tender and sad piece about a woman saying goodbye to her dying husband.
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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.
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Clunkers
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Girl Scout
A story about a first date that contains a ton of charm and a surprising amount of tension
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Alchemy
It starts with: “We are imprisoned by our bones, entombed at birth by flesh”, and doesn’t get less grim from there.