Fiction Pick of the Week: "Grief"
Complex grieving rituals in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.
Complex grieving rituals in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.
Scholastique Mukasonga The New Yorker Jun 2020 25min Permalink
A murdered drug dealer; a neighborhood of colorful personalities.
James McBride O: The Oprah Magazine Jun 2020 15min Permalink
In the 1960s, a white subdivision prepares for the arrival of a black family.
Brit Bennett The Cut Jun 2020 10min Permalink
CW: racist language
A black android faces grave human racism.
Chesya Burke Apex Magazine Apr 2017 10min Permalink
Growing up indigenous in Detroit.
Ron Riekki jmww Journal May 2020 20min Permalink
A first date; a viewing of a classic musical.
Gideon Jacobs Playboy May 2020 20min Permalink
A couple's attempt to create an offspring from nature.
Olivia Bradley Third Point Press May 2020 10min Permalink
An antique high chair; the complexities of parenting and growing.
Chelsea Sutton Pithead Chapel May 2020 Permalink
A troubled TV chef meets a mysterious creature.
Susanna Crossman Berfrois Apr 2020 10min Permalink
A futuristic world of scavenging and anatomical harvesting.
Yoon Ha Lee Lightspeed Magazine Apr 2020 30min Permalink
Encounters with a vampire, fraught with strange escalations.
Helen McClory The Rupture Apr 2020 20min Permalink
A childhood poster catalyzes complex doubts about a marriage.
Weike Wang Gulf Coast Magazine Mar 2020 15min Permalink
A troubled professor's obsession with "Goodfellas."
Salvatore Pane Always Crashing Mar 2020 20min Permalink
A woman suspects her new boyfriend is less than human.
Kate Folk The New Yorker Mar 2020 25min
A husband tells his wife a strange, secret story.
Harris Lahti Hobart Mar 2020 Permalink
New neighbors meet, told from a unique point of view.
Judyth Emanuel Longleaf Review Mar 2020 15min Permalink
A family stops at a Jersey travel plaza on the way to a New York medical center.
Jen Michalski Necessary Fiction Feb 2020 10min Permalink
A new apartment; exercises in surrealism.
J.I. Daniels Juked Magazine Feb 2020 10min Permalink
A young woman in a dead-end job searches for direction.
Jerilynn Aquino Passages North Feb 2020 10min Permalink
A flight attendant caught between various loves and worlds.
Hana Mason Little Fiction Feb 2020 10min Permalink
An addict's relationship causes various traumas.
Max Halper Pithead Chapel Feb 2020 10min Permalink
Children with internet implants.
Alexander Weinstein Lit Hub Jan 2020 Permalink
Surviving sexual assault in a rapidly digitized world.
Mary South The New Yorker Jan 2020 30min Permalink
Childhood friends, escalating traumas.
Miranda Williams Menacing Hedge Jan 2020 15min Permalink
A gay Costa Rican shopowner navigates family turmoil and political upheaval.
John Manuel Arias Barren Magazine Jan 2020 15min Permalink