September 1, 2023
Protected: Happyland (DO NOT PUBLISH)
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September 1, 2023
Forage
The Kenyon Review · “Forage” by Carter Sickels Not long after my grandfather died, my mother told me she had a dream about him. He was sitting on the edge […]
September 1, 2023
The Woman from Angers
The Kenyon Review · “The Woman from Angers” by Catherine Kim I. Proposals When I was growing up, our family seemed unremarkable and predictable in every way. My parents, and […]
August 31, 2023
Who Will Play Salaheddin?
Everything had to be put on hold until we found the right person. It wasn’t funny. When Scorpion the son led us into that office one day — it was creepy, had […]
August 31, 2023
The Similarity of Bodies
You tore up my note, your morning opened with Nora’s voice like a play that again you won’t be directing, and outside the light was blank and coloring the insistent […]
August 30, 2023
Thunderhead
The Kenyon Review · “Thunderhead” by Gregory Spatz The ground was cold under David’s shoulder blades despite the heat of the day. Cold and with an incipient damp just beneath […]
August 30, 2023
Sfratti
The Kenyon Review · “Sfratti” by Emily Franklin Paul pushed open the pantry door with his torn foot to find Anna crouched on the stone floor, flour canisters and ropes […]
August 29, 2023
Country Club
Before he had moved to Chile, June’s uncle had been kidnapped in the street, brought to his house, and tied up with rope like in the movies. The house and […]
August 29, 2023
Our House
In our house there are twenty-seven rooms. In those twenty-seven rooms tick seven hundred and twenty-nine clocks. My father says I should come visit, it’s been so long. For days, […]
August 28, 2023
Lemon Season
She found the lemons charming at first. “Blue bowl! No stroller! More lemons!” She smiled at his self-knowledge and rewarded his confidence with both hands, even as he failed to […]
August 1, 2023
Bitter Waters
The goose lands with a thud, such heft buried beneath its downy feathers that the old truck gives a bounce, jostling the doctor from her stupor. The huge bird eyes […]
June 13, 2023
Burnings
The story made the front page of the New York Times that morning — a doctor had blown up his brownstone so it would not go to his wife in the divorce […]