Safe Travels to Unhappy Places
“When it got unbearable I went to the mountains to look for drama.” Story of the Week (September 4), by Zain Saeed.
Read Morefiction
Lint
“I liked the kid. He made me nervy, but I liked him. If he hadn’t come along, I wouldn’t have made it. I wouldn’t have even made it halfway backwards if I had it in me to try.” Story of the Week (August 28), by N.V. Baker.
Read More
The Stories I Am Always Writing
“In this story I will write about a character who will walk around a tiny artificial bush of plants trying to find meaning in an argument that happened last night…” Story of the Week (August 21), by Debojit Dutta.
Read More
A Life
“We begin with a girl and end with an old woman.” Story of the Week (August 7), by Robert Earle.
Read More
The Swim Club
“My group was Gym ‘n’ Swim, a coed skills development group emphasizing stroke work, aquatic first aid and Christian standards of living.” Story of the Week (July 31), by David Hauptschein.
Read More
Dorje Phagmo
“I was still almost a child, fourteen years old, when the Red Guards came to Tibet in 1961.” Story of the Week (July 24), by June Calender.
Read More
Battle of the Brothers
“How the sky matured like plums, how silence lay between them like a bed…” Story of the Week (July 17), by Rushda Rafeek.
Read More
Putin’s Soul
“I take Putin’s soul by the hand and seat him in my little red wagon, and I start to pull him back to my house.” Story of the Week (July 10), by Ambika Thompson.
Read More
The Tragicomedy of Mefito and Tentorea
“Tentorea runs home crying. Mefito stays where he is, horribly anguished. A beautiful love story can’t just go down the tubes on account of a hypersensitive nose and ears.” Story of the Week (July 3), by Pablo MartÃn Sánchez. Translated from Spanish by Jeff Diteman.
Read More
Martian Photos
“See the exposed wall over there—the cracks in the plaster are shaped like an agave plant.” Story of the Week (June 26), by Geoffrey Aronson.
Read More