Browsing Category Fiction
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Sugar on Snow
Everyone was home for the wake, even those who were tired from sitting with Papa Ned and waiting. He had made them wait so long. The floors in ...
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Does the Name Blackie Donovan Mean Anything To You?
There’s this little guy on my porch I’ve never seen before. He’s a caricature of an Irish thug and he’s looking for Mikayla, my daughter, who he accuses ...
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Q&A with author Marco Rafalà and an excerpt of How Fires End
Heartbreaking and haunting, How Fires End is a powerful novel that explores devastating family secrets - who keeps them and why, how and when they will someday be ...
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The Novel I Will Never Write: A Screed by Gabe Cohen
The protagonist of the novel I will never write is kind of like me. Except more articulate. And cleverer. And a bit more handsome. And, if I’m real ...
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Hitting the Wall
The first time Cassandra passed through the wall, she hadn’t meant to. She had been standing at the edge of a retirement party at the hospital feeling as ...
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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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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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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 ...
