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Manifest Destiny

The best choice Mitt Romney ever made.

by Giri Nathan on November 7, 2012March 22, 2013

Delivery

“He frowned and then she was opening the door! and she was a woman because of course she was but he had temporarily forgotten women existed.”

by Lara Katz on November 7, 2021November 6, 2021

An Imaginary Collection

“I sometimes wonder, would you be able to reconstruct some image of me through the objects I’ve left behind? Would you know what I looked like? Smelled like? How I acted in public and in private?”

by Archie Golden on December 10, 2017December 10, 2017

Solstice Day

“Even the men, titillated by the brown bags of charcoal, pocketed their lighters and followed her instructions.”

by Peter Schmidt on March 12, 2017March 11, 2017

True Vision

“Their next destination, they believe, will uncover something staggering: a single place where the tides have converged the bulk of humanity’s discarded waste. They are determined to expose the truth.”

by Devonne Piccaver on October 4, 2025October 5, 2025

Three and One

A story.

by Jared Garland on November 21, 2012March 22, 2013

Run

Exercise—the thesis research of the future.

by Joy Chen on May 4, 2015

Sun Stroke

Central Florida, melanoma, and a nursing home romance

by Julia Stern on October 3, 2024October 6, 2024

Dolores, Part I

Doña Dolores was a wretched woman.

by Oscar Mahoney on October 2, 2016October 2, 2016

First, Nothing

“Let yourself age. Let time press through your skeleton like water, dribbling through your pores, let it sing right through your bones…”

by Lara Katz on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

Purgatory is in a West Village Walkup

“It was one of those topsy-turvy Wednesday evenings in New York when one feels like they’ve fallen through a manhole and landed in New Amsterdam: when everything feels offputting and unusual in occurrence.”

by Lola Horowitz on October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

No Angel Knows

“At the top of the platform I turned left. The flat surface of the hemispheric bubble sprawled below. In my memory, the red chairs looked like rock candy.”

by Tess Solomon on April 21, 2019April 22, 2019


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