Fiction
“The Frog King”
“I would get up soon but for now I kept looking at him, his face bearded and dark, smoothed out by sleep.”
“Show Recent Some Love”
“In the olden days, as I recall, you had your charming pigs and your not so charming pigs. Mike was on the spectrum there.”
Fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga: “Cattle Praise Song”
“Every man had something to say about the cows he’d once owned and those he would perhaps, one day, own again. ”
Fiction by Tony Earley: “Backpack”
“John began to sense the world unravelling behind him, the tightly braided strands of his life snapping free with sharp cracks.”
“Flaubert Again”
“If she were ever really writing, the writing would pull her down into itself and erase everything but her decency. ”
Fiction by Kevin Barry: “The Coast of Leitrim”
“He was tormented now by his own happiness. He could not imagine a future day without Katherine.”
“The Rise and Rise of Annie Clark”
“With a prayer of thanks to Jesus, Annie seizes on her power as a modern woman. She will take her life into her own hands and let someone else do all the work for a change.”
“When We Were Happy We Had Other Names”
“One morning when Jiayu opened her eyes she said to the ceiling, Grief, I don’t know who you are, so don’t pretend you know who I am.”
