Infinite Ground
Martin MacInnes
“He got the call in the night, for some reason. His help would be appreciated going over a case. ”
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“¡Dale, Dale, Dale!”
Michael Jaime-Becerra
“Hanging among SpongeBobs and Poké Balls and Princess Elsas, between a giant Snoopy and a mermaid, you find the piñata of Trump.”
It Devours!
Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
“Not everyone believes in mountains, yet there they are, in plain sight.”
Crimes of the Father
Thomas Keneally
“Sarah was fourteen when she ran an errand to the presbytery, with a message from one of the older nuns to the polished young priest who was curate to the parish priest, himself a monsignor.”
Kompromat
Stanley Johnson
“It was dark when they landed in Khabarovsk after the long flight from St Petersburg. A helicopter waited on the runway to transport them to the camp at the junction of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers.”
Uncertain Glory
Joan Sales, trans. Peter Bush
“When I got up, life seemed worth living again. Only because I have a little corner of this earth all to myself”
North Station
Bae Suah, trans. Deborah Smith
“I liked to talk about dreams. For lovers, Freud was a gypsy of romance and sensual desire, part fortune-teller, part lute-carrying poet, and the manufacturer of a wonder drug. ”
A Natural
Ross Raisin
“A few drivers had slowed to look up at the side of the coach as it circled the roundabout.”
“House Made of Snow”
Matthew Lansburgh
“All evening, Stewart has behaved properly. Of this he is certain. Now it is late though, and night coaxes him into its arms.”
“1-800-Fat-Girl”
Emily Geminder
“This was the summer they entered phone booths and ran out shrieking. ”
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
Martha Batalha, trans. Eric M.B. Becker
“When he was still very young, Chico thought that all other families were just like his.”
The Iliac Crest
Cristina Rivera Garza, Trans. by Sarah Booker
“Now, after so much time has passed, I am still dwelling on it, incredulous. How is it possible that someone like me had allowed an unknown woman into my house on a stormy night?”
“Gimme Shelter”
Emily Fridlund
“In her adulthood strangers asked, “Where’d you get your accent?” They guessed England, they guessed Sweden, they guessed the South.”
“A Love Letter”
Greg Ames
“Here’s what I know: life is short and life is long. Allow me to explain.”
Abandon
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay, trans. Arunava Sinha
“And then we proceed to wander around the city in search of shelter. We drift through the morbid yellow afternoon. ”
Petite Fleur
Iosi Havilio, trans. Lorna Scott Fox
“This when I was someone else. Like every day since we moved to the town, that Monday morning I got on my bike and started pedalling.”
Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
“Driving along Eighty-sixth Street in Brooklyn, Dexter Styles saw Badger check his wristwatch and then extend a hairy hand toward the radio dial, presumably to turn on the five-thirty a.m. news.”
“Inventory”
Carmen Maria Machado
“One girl. We lay down next to each other on the musty rug in her basement.”
In the Distance
Hernan Diaz
“Two men escorted Håkan through the empty barroom and led him upstairs to a room adjacent to the woman’s.”
“Zumki’s Snowlion”
Tenzin Tsundue
“Zumki stops her dad in the middle of the bustling New York street and insists that he tells her the snow lion story again. ”
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