Story Archives

| By Mir Arif

[ Issue Issue #21 ]

Heuristic

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| By Molly Patterson

[ Issue Issue #21 ]

Perfectly Disgraceful

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| By Anthony Varallo

[ Issue Issue #21 ]

Girl Dinner

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| By Christopher Lowe

[ May 8, 2025 ]

A Review of Are You Happy? by Lori Ostlund

There is a moment early in Are You Happy?, the title story from Lori Ostlund’s new collection, where Phil, the story’s protagonist, reflects on his decision not to bring his partner, Kelvin, with him to visit his dying mother. Because he has not explicitly told his family about Kelvin’s existence and not talked to them about …

| By Sela Chávez

[ March 6, 2025 ]

An Ensemble of Voices from the Homeland: A Review of Jared Lemus’s Guatemalan Rhapsody

In his debut short story collection, Guatemalan Rhapsody, Jared Lemus assembles dynamic slice-of-life stories about men and boys living in Guatemala and its diaspora, a perspective that enriches the growing canon of Latinx lit. With eight stories set in Guatemala and four in the United States, readers accompany unassuming characters as they scrape by in their …

[ January 18, 2025 ]

Our Conversation with Nicole Haroutunian

Recently, we sat down with Nicole Haroutunian, whose story “Jesus Louise” appeared in Issue #18, to talk about how she created such an incredible story and how it fits in her story collection, Choose This Now (Noemi Press, 2024). In addition to the story, Haroutunian discusses how a story collection comes together, the book’s publication …

| By Kristin Tenor

[ January 2, 2025 ]

Finding Our Shared Humanity in Allegra Hyde’s The Last Catastrophe

Henry David Thoreau once said, “Not until we’re lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” This same sentiment speaks to the heart of Allegra Hyde’s short story collection, The Last Catastrophe, an assemblage of fifteen speculative stories that creatively consider the consequences of a not-too-distant future that at times feels so resonant and eerily familiar one …

| By Seth Borgen

[ Issue Issue #20 ]

Richard Chamberlain Comes to Tolerance

March 27, 1983 Sissy Ghent is twenty-four years old. She has two children, Jill, 4, and Kelly, 3. It is a surprise to her that she is a stay-at-home-mom, but there she is. Her high school sweetheart and husband of five years, Cary Ghent, is also twenty-four. He owns and operates Butch’s Muffler. He bought …

| By Jackie Sabbagh

[ Issue Issue #20 ]

Chad and Theo

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| By Jackie Sabbagh

[ Issue Issue #20 ]

Adam

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