Home and Other Places we Left (4:57)
Home and Other Places we Left is a short story about a reluctant savior and the weight of imposed responsibility. This piece of flash fiction comes to us from New York City based writer Douglas Silver and first appeared in the literary journal Sou’wester. Your reader – Brian...
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A Simple Rigid Structure (14:24)
A Simple Rigid Structure is a story about behavioral pliability, acceptance and love. Written by Andrea Kneeland, A Simple Rigid Structure,first appeared in the online journal Barrelhouse. Kneeland’s first collection of stories, the Birds & the Beasts, is forthcoming from Lit Pub in 2012. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is a web editor for magazine Hobart. ...
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Dings (11:44)
Dings is a beautifully adapted story about a sad and terrifying end of life car ride. Written by New York based writer Wayne Conti, the story was first published in the online literary magazine anderbo.com, where Conti is a contributing editor. His stories have also appeared on pindeldyboz.com and in OPEN CITY Magazine. Wayne is the proprietor of Mercer Street Books & Records in New York...
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A Family Among Us (8:47)
A Family Among Us, written by Blake Kimzey, is a surreal story about birth, death and our elemental connection to the ocean. Kimzey’s fiction has been published in Australia, England, and North America. Born in Texas, Blake is currently a student in the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. First published in Dark Sky Magazine, Jill Marlene reads A Family Among Us written by Blake...
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Trajectory (11:38)
Trajectory affords a view of the world from inside a women’s prison. The web based literary magazine EdgePiece first published the short story written by Majnun Ben-David. Before becoming a writer, Majnun worked in Africa as an anthropologist until he realized that fiction was maybe a better way of telling the truth, so now he spends his time writing stories. Here is Trajectory written by Majnun...
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Crossing the Orange (7:08)
Crossing the Orange offers a unique and telling perspective on US/Mexico border relations. Written by Michael Pacheco,Crossing the Orange first appeared in the online literary magazine, The Acentos Review. Pacheco was born in the Chihuahuan desert of northern Mexico, but early in his life his parents moved to Washington state, where he graduated from Kennewick High School and received his BA from...
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Yesterday I Burned Things (5:37)
Yesterday I Burned Things is an indictment of the unknowing sameness that, to varying degrees, draws us all into the vulgar center. I first read this story by Amy Muldoon in the online journal Denver Syntax. Muldoon sold her first novel in 1993, and has been pseudonymously writing popular fiction since. Her work has been translated into five languages, including Romanian. Her short stories of ghosts,...
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The Pawn (21:31)
The Pawn, written by Virginia based writer Scott Loring Sanders, chronicles a meth addict’s harrowing and transformative journey to the New River and back. Sanders is the author of two novels, The Hanging Woods and Gray Baby. Though he grew up in New Jersey, for the past twenty years he’s lived in the mountains of Virginia and currently teaches Creative Writing at Virginia Tech. This story was...
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I Like Your Mustache, and other Lithuanian Tales (11:47)
I Like Your Mustache, and other Lithuanian Tales features huge plates of fat dumplings smothered in sour cream and a distinctly Baltic twist on mistaken identity. This story comes from Australian writer Rijn Collins and was first published in the online magazine Lowestoft Chronicle. Collins has been published in numerous anthologies and online journals, and her short fiction has been adapted for...
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Another Little Piece (12:06)
The short story Another Little Piece details the exciting potential for connection in shared disability. We discovered this story by Tennessee based writer Kevin Wilson in the online journal Prime Number. Wilson is the author of a story collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, and a novel, The Family Fang. He lives and teaches in Sewanee, TN.
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