Pretend We Are Lovely
Noley Reid
“I’m her girl, the second.”
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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.”
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
“Bobbi and I first met Melissa at a poetry night in town, where we were performing together.”
Live from Cairo
Ian Bassingthwaighte
“Six months ago, Dalia walked into Charlie’s office for the first time.”
Empire Of Glass
Kaitlin Solimine
“From his morning perch atop Gansu’s yellow cliffs, the New Year arrived with the pop hiss of firecrackers set on the valley’s crowded streets.”
We Shall Not All Sleep
Estep Nagy
“Lila pushed open the screen door and then closed it behind her again, gently.”
“Sunshine”
Curtis Dawkins
“George had come back from the visiting room where his girlfriend, Sunshine, just told him she had cancer.”
Pages For Her
Sylvia Brownrigg
“There was no fall in California, and this had forever been a problem for Flannery.”
The Fall
Bill Roorbach
“They’d driven where Uncle Bud had shown them on his tattered maps—west on a long unmarked logging road deep into the woods, through two unattended paper-company gates, then north on a faint jeep trail, once much used, no longer.”
No Frills
Janet Capron
“The taxi sailed downtown along the East River, on its way to deliver me to my first whorehouse.”
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