Fiction Pick of the Week: "People"
Growing up indigenous in Detroit.
2020s
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Adam's Apple"
A first date; a viewing of a classic musical.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Root Bound"
A couple's attempt to create an offspring from nature.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "There Is No Baby In This Story"
An antique high chair; the complexities of parenting and growing.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Edie Bakes Cakes"
A troubled TV chef meets a mysterious creature.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Always the Harvest"
A futuristic world of scavenging and anatomical harvesting.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Slake"
Encounters with a vampire, fraught with strange escalations.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Poster"
A childhood poster catalyzes complex doubts about a marriage.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Do I Amuse You?"
A troubled professor's obsession with "Goodfellas."
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Out There"
A woman suspects her new boyfriend is less than human.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Anniversary"
A husband tells his wife a strange, secret story.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Lollie"
New neighbors meet, told from a unique point of view.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Important People of New Jersey"
A family stops at a Jersey travel plaza on the way to a New York medical center.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Boxes"
A new apartment; exercises in surrealism.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Request"
A young woman in a dead-end job searches for direction.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Nobody Girl"
A flight attendant caught between various loves and worlds.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Twelfth Utopia"
An addict's relationship causes various traumas.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "We Only Wanted Their Happiness"
Children with internet implants.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "You Will Never Be Forgotten"
Surviving sexual assault in a rapidly digitized world.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "This is How the Fairy Queen Dies"
Childhood friends, escalating traumas.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "For the Love of Dior"
A gay Costa Rican shopowner navigates family turmoil and political upheaval.
