Fiction Archives

I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know.…

Isn’t today the day? Or, Saroyan 1964

by William Saroyan,

Notes from a lady at a dinner party

by Bernard Malamud,

The sound of nothing

by Bettie Jane Murray,

Lycanthrope

by Kenneth Bernard,

Perseid

by John Barth,

August 1914

by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzheniëtìsyn,Translated by Michael Glenny,

Believers

by John Updike,

The place to be

by Forrest Scarborough,

Interstices

by Gail Godwin,

Did you ever slip on red blood?

by Joyce Carol Oates,

A happy death

by Albert Camus,Translated by Richard Howard,

Under glass

by Margaret Eleanor Atwood,

Beginnings

by Robert Coover,

Elena, unfaithful

by Gloria Kurian Broder,

Tom Castro, the implausible impostor

by Jorge Luis Borges,

Sublimating

by John Updike,

Bloodstains

by Joyce Carol Oates,

The girl with the gold tooth

Translated by Lovett Fielding Edwards,

As the hippiest doctor almost grooved

by Stephen Erhart,

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Midtown trout

The prophet’s slippers

A variety of religious experience

And then

The woman who thought she was beautiful

Initiations

Baldessari’s Dead Sea flights

The harbinger

The educational experience

Why we might have to move to the country

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