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Short fiction

A Three-Hour Tour
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From a reading delivered in November in Richmond, Virginia. We began to figure it out on day eleven or twelve of the seven-day trip, the slate and obsidian waves rolling…

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Mother-Daughter Story
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How to explain to her daughter. Back when she was in college, she had taken a literary seminar for which she’d had to read Kafka’s “Letter to His Father.” After…

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Rivka Galchen on American Innovations: Stories
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Rivka Galchen © Sandy Tait The characters in Rivka Galchen’s new collection, American Innovations, are as surprised and confused by time travel, mysterious growths, and encounters with the dead as they…

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New Directions
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Employees: According to law enforcement, mass disappearances are not uncommon.

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