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Kenneth Calhoun, “Primal Scenes”
A twelve-year-old boy moves with his family to Guadalajara after his father is caught having an affair with a student; sexy stuff and trouble ensues. (from Tin House 60, Summer 2014) In America we...
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Joy Williams, “The Little Winter”
Gloria, a thirty-five-year-old woman dying of cancer, goes to visit her friend, Jean, and Jean’s strange daughter, and then sort-of kidnaps the girl. (from Escapes) There was something truly terrifying...
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Jim Gavin, “The Copy Chief”
After a decade spent surfing and working at a gas station, Eddie becomes a newspaperman. (from Zoetrope: All-Story, Summer 2014) I had a sublet in Mar Vista. My roommate, Brett, was creepy and docile...
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Alice Munro, “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage”
Johanna leaves town with a new dress and some stolen furniture to begin a life in the middle of nowhere with a man who isn’t expecting her. (from Zoetrope: All-Story, Summer 2014) The station agent...
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Paula Bomer, “Eye Socket Girls”
A young woman awaits release from the anorexia-ward of a hospital. (from Inside Madeleine) Here in the ward, we outnumber them. They may walk around with charts and fancy white outfits, but we’re all...
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Julie Hayden, “Walking with Charlie”
A woman takes her seventeen-month-old nephew for a walk in the park on Halloween. (from The Lists of the Past) …We wave farewell to the moon, to the Park and all its kind and dangerous inhabitants. On...
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Amelia Kahaney, “The Temp”
An office falls in love with their glamorous temp. (from The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009) So, Karen, what’s your story, we asked. It turned out the temp was writing a novel! It was going to...
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Lorrie Moore, “Places to Look for Your Mind”
A young Englishman named John Spee comes to stay with Millie and Holt Keegan in New Jersey. (from Like Life) How disappointing America must seem. To wander the streets of a city that was not yours, a...
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Rebecca Schiff, “Boxing Experiment A38″
A woman teaches her widowed mother to use the computer. (from The American Reader, Vol 2, No 2) I did a search for “water filters” because I wanted to protect her from the carcinogens of Central New...
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Yannick Murphy, “In a Bear’s Eye”
A mother panics as a bear shakes apples from a tree near her son. (from The Better of McSweeney’s Vol 2) “Your boy is a smart boy,” the teacher said. “The death of his father must have come as a...
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