Montpelier Parade
Karl Geary
“It had started to rain, but it was the gentle kind.”
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To Die in Spring
Ralf Rothmann (Trans. Shaun Whiteside)
“Silence, deep concealment, particularly about the dead, is ultimately a vacuum that fills with truth.”
“The Reunion”
Silvia Kwon
“Chien woke in the dark, before sunrise, just as the rooster began to crow.”
The Strange Bird
Jeff VanderMeer
“The Strange Bird’s first thought was of a sky over an ocean she had never seen, in a place far from the fire-washed laboratory from which she emerged, cage smashed open but her wings, miraculous, unbroken.”
The Talented Ribkins
Ladee Hubbard
“He only came back because Melvin said he would kill him if he didn’t pay off his debt by the end of the week.”
Grace
Paul Lynch
“This flood October. And in the early light her mother goes for her, rips her from sleep, takes her from a dream of the world."
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
Cherise Wolas
“Joan Ashby was frank with Martin Manning right from the start: “There are two things you should know about me.”
Island of Point Nemo
Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès (Trans. Hannah Chute)
“His fingers caress what look like the colorful bindings of the Collection Hetzel.”
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.”
The Dark Net
Benjamin Percy
“She drives a beater Volvo station wagon that used to belong to her parents.”
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.”
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.”
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