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Eat Only When You’re Hungry

Lindsay Hunter

“It was too late to be a lunch, too early to be a dinner, this disappointing collection of food Greg was packing.”


Motherly

Caitlin Hamilton Summie

“Outside, children skate on a homemade ice rink.”


Safe

Ryan Gattis

“The 710’s good at night going south.”


The Dark Net

Benjamin Percy

“She drives a beater Volvo station wagon that used to belong to her parents.”


The Misfortune of Marion Palm

Emily Culliton

“Marion Palm is on the lam.”


Motherest

Kristen Iskandrian

“It’s a long train ride from the middle of a New England nowhere to the middle of a New Jersey nowhere.”


A Boy In Winter

Rachel Seiffert

“Yasia saw her first Germans in August.”


The Seventh Function of Language

Laurent Binet (Trans. Sam Taylor)

“Life is not a novel.”


The Bones of Louella Brown

Ann Petry

“Old Peabody and Young Whiffle, partners in the firm of Whiffle and Peabody, Incorporated, read with mild interest the first article about Bedford Abbey which appeared in the Boston papers.”


True Blue Time

Justin Taylor

“The snow in the headlights reminds Trace of Space Invaders.”


Palomino

Bret Anthony Johnston

“The fat man and his wife came into Checkered Flag Auto just as I was locking up.”


The Trout

Peter Cunningham

“Trout tend to rise according to the stages being followed by hatching flies and aquatic organisms.”


The Grip Of It

Jac Jemc

“I tell Julie I’ve made a friend at work.”


The Unit

Ninni Holmqvist (Trans. Marlaine Delargy)

“Yes, I did actually have a house.”


Out in the Open

Jesús Carrasco (Trans. Margaret Jull Costa)

“From inside his hole in the ground, he heard the sound of voices calling his name, and as if they were crickets, he tried to pinpoint the precise location of each man within the bounds of the olive grove.”


Nature and Necessity

Tariq Goddard

“At last it had happened.”


Goodbye, Vitamin

Rachel Khong

“Tonight a man found Dad’s pants in a tree lit with Christmas lights.”


Pretend We Are Lovely

Noley Reid

“I’m her girl, the second.”


The Burning Ground

Adam O'Riordan

“Alannah would always come at two o’clock as she had on her first visit.”


Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin

Tristine Rainer

“A dry crack of laughter came from the back of Anaïs’s throat.”


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