May 3, 2021
Belles Lettres
The bus left early Friday morning, due to reach Judith’s town in the Hudson Valley a little after lunch. She had said in her email she would pick me up […]
May 3, 2021
The Brownie
I wanted the brownie. We were in Amsterdam for the weekend. It was my only chance. Yes, I could find a brownie in Stuttgart, but I wasn’t going to risk […]
May 3, 2021
Human Hearts
Mother has always called me weak. I am too soft-hearted, she says, to be a real kumiho. “You must take after your father in that way, Okja,” she says, teeth […]
March 1, 2021
Birdlime
After a very long time, so long he’d grown more bitter, he saw her again. She was not weak, nor were her eyes yellow. She was bright and alive, the […]
March 1, 2021
Collapsible
To solve the housing crisis, the city decides to make all the buildings collapsible. Consuelo, the girl full of stories and secrets, is young when the mayor passes the law […]
January 4, 2021
Percy
A novel excerpt Slacks, shoes, whatever tie, and Percy was out the door, moving. It had never been so easy to tackle the morning. He inhaled as deeply as he […]
January 4, 2021
Coffins Patch
Coffins Patch is dying, and everything suggests there is no hope of saving it. Still, wet suit clad, Ei Mun rolls backward off the boat. Here is the world flipping […]
January 4, 2021
Beach Town
Beachcomber How the beachcomber, waking, reaches up and peels off a sheet of wallpaper soggy with sea air, in this cruddy little room in this cruddy little beach town, but […]
November 1, 2020
The Zimmerman Trees
It was Friday in late February, and Henry Zimmerman and his wife sat in front of the fireplace. Ginny had the TV on. She was watching one of those afternoon […]
November 1, 2020
The Snake Priest
1846. Ghara, Sind He crouches in the dusty street among the beggars, wrapped in a tattered blanket, his face darkened with henna and his beard wild. It seems he is […]
November 1, 2020
These Are the Circumstances
“We’re animals,” she said, “never forget that,” and he said, “Speak for yourself,” and she said, “I’m serious, because we’re just not made to sit around all day in an […]
November 1, 2020
Twenty Years Ago
Let me at the start say that Nishi Singh is a healthy woman. She was healthier still, body and mind, at the time of the alleged murder and haunting some […]