Carve Magazine: Samurai Blue Grass
by Craig Terlson
This is a story about loss, told by Jim, an artist whose wife has recently died in an accident. We meet Jim at a point where he seems have accepted his wife’s death, but is still carrying enough demons to prevent him from living a full life. [...]

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Frigg Magazine: Leroy Can Tell You When
by A.S. King
A.S. King delivers a tale told by John, a boy of Junior High School age, about his brother Leroy.
Leroy is 10 years old, and mentally handicapped, perhaps autistic. Leroy likes to count numbers, in every way, by fives, seventeens, twenty twos. In the tradition of [...]

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Tin House: Uncertainty
by Joshua Ferris
Uncertainty, a short story by Joshua Ferris, explores themes of powerlessness and the prospect of bleak futures over which we may have no control.
He does this through the eyes of two main characters, a young, married couple, living in New York. Nate is a climatologist, who teaches and researches global [...]

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