Browsing Category Fiction
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An Awesome Gap
Around the corner, the lot opened up and the asphalt smoothed out. The rough patches disappeared and Patrick glided along, gaining speed as he headed for a concrete ...
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Fiction 0
The Asshole
He was not a very good person. He was, by many accounts, vile, impolite, crude, inappropriate, ignorant, insensitive, and offensive. He was a gifted asshole, a precocious prick, ...
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Eyewitness
The eyewitness entered. He had no eyes. Unsteadily he made his way through the courtroom, groping the air with his hands. Blood ran from his eye-sockets, blood so ...
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Drawing Father
At ten years old, I liked to jump out of my bedroom window at night and lie on my back behind the house. Here I could think about ...
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Advice 0
Ask Annie: Imagining Fiction
Anne Bernays has been a mainstay of Pangyrus since our launch–and a mainstay of fiction and non-fiction writing for decades. Co-author of What If?, one of the most enduring texts ...
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Microwave Oven
I once had a friend who was a microwave oven. She heated up quickly, but had a cold heart. I went to high school with her. We kept ...
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Talking Moharrém Blues
On his first visit from the town to the village, Matt’s heart sank. The room he was supposed to teach in had no windows and barely even a ...
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Fiction 3
Someone Called for You
1 When she turned the corner of the store, holding two gallons of paint in one hand and box of rainbow chalk in the other, I realized I’d ...
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Fiction 1
Isle of Delights
The lake was alive with lights: the lanterns on the boats golden and round like hundreds of miniature suns, and the moon so heavy on the horizon it ...
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Fiction 0
Far in the Hole
An out-take from the acclaimed novel Heat and Light. Jennifer Haigh: In drafting a novel, I give myself permission to follow every thread of story that fascinates me. ...
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Fiction 0
Sunsets of Tulum
-an excerpt- Day Zero In the Chopper As Reed Haflinger shivered near the door in the Beverley airport lobby, he promised himself he would never let Dan talk him ...
