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Fiction

New fiction from today’s most exciting authors.

Octopus

by Charis Conn,

What he did was weep. With a convulsive, shredded sound, as if fabric were being rent or animals slaughtered. He was so small that his most solemn sorrowful sounds were…

Possum

by Charles Baxter,

Rudderless fiction

by Rick DeMarinis,

Lesson one

Hopes rise

by T. C. Boyle,

Do you hear your mother talking?

by William Kittredge,

Full day

by Reynolds Price,

Ladies and gentlemen

by Joyce Carol Oates,

Nativity, Caucasian

by Allan Gurganus,

Sweet cheeks

by Lee K. Abbott,

Death by landscape

by Margaret Eleanor Atwood,

Never in This World

by Mark Richard,

Rehearsing “The Firebird”

by Jane Hamilton,

Eleanor in the underworld

by J.S. Marcus,

Kerenyaga

by Rand Richards Cooper,

The leap

by Louise Erdrich,

The varieties of romantic experience

by Robert Cohen,

Witness

by Madison Smartt Bell,

Reassurance

by Allan Gurganus,

Jump

by Nadine Gordimer,

Ship in a bottle

by Annie Dillard,

When I began to understand quantum mechanics

by Jane Hamilton,

Insulation

by Rick DeMarinis,

Scheherazade

by Charles Baxter,

Americana

by Mona Simpson,

Backdaire

by Fae Myenne Ng,

In love with Ariadne

by William Trevor,

Peace

by Max Apple,

Peace of mind