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Stories

Poetry
In Airports
by Erin Belieu
It was the season of storm delays, of . . . shame and ghosts on trains
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Poem of the Week
In Bed
by David Romtvedt
Our spirits are as transparent as the gown my wife wears in bed.
Story of the Week
In Between Days
by Andrew Porter
The first time she’d touched his body, it had been like going back in time.
Six-Word Stories
In Country
by Robert Olen Butler
"In County": A new six-word story by Robert Olen Butler.
Poetry
In Custody and Other Poems
by Kawita Kandpal
Make haste, my love, I am redrawing the scale of escape.
iPoems
In Defense of Ballin’ on a Budget
by Marcus Wicker
To get the job, always stay starched, creased to death.
Poem of the Week
In Eulogies
by Emily Vizzo
When you are a father, want sons. There is some math in this.
Story of the Week
In London Town
by Bill Barich
Part of my desire to be in London related to its writers.
Nonfiction
In Love
by Amy Bloom
Those moments are all I want. I want a life of this. He sighs and I sigh.
iPoems
In New York
by Kristina Bicher
It’s raining concrete. I bite my grief wetly. Who will test these chains?
Fiction
In Other Words
by Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh
Story of the Week
In Passing
by Ru Freeman
The ashes of a human being are not ash. The body burns into wood.
Poem of the Week
In Praise of the Du-Rag
by Raphael Jenkins
you a ghetto dreamcatcher under my fitted warding ghosts
In Search of Celilo
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In Search of Celilo

I found these photos of Celilo Falls while doing research for an earlier story. . . .
Story of the Week
In Search of Inner Mongolia
by Daniel Chernin
“I want to stay in real yurts,” I said, “not yurts for Westerners.”
Story of the Week
In Sloane Street
by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Pushing by the man, he ran down the street towards the station.
Fiction
In That Time
by Richard Bausch
“Can’t you see Hemingway’s having breakfast with his grandson?”
Fiction
In the Museum of the Americas
by Richard Bausch
Divorced. Wife living with someone else. Pregnant with his child.
Nonfiction
In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters
by Joyce Carol Oates
“Happy? Nabokov died yesterday, we all move up a notch.”
Story of the Week
In the Region of Ice
by Joyce Carol Oates
He’s an excellent student. It’s just that . . . he thinks ideas are real.
Winter Contest Winners
In the Absence of Rain
by Catherine Pond
Blacked-out little angel, you shuffle home under the streetlights.
Story of the Week
In the Car before School
by Carson Fletcher Reid
She’d do anything once, to know what it was like.
Poem of the Week
In the Guise of Couplets
by M. A. Vizsolyi
Every room came furnished half-real & dead like mirrors on skin
Readers' Narratives
In the House of a Sangoma, Katatura, Namibia
by Tara W. Lumpkin
Poem of the Week
In the Kitchen
by Jean Joubert
The child writes, Child, and is amazed at this word on the page.
Poetry
In the Land of Long Distances
by Dylan Weir
Another year another almanac, a washed-out castle in the sand.
Story of the Week
In the Land of Many Enemies
by James Welch
Bad luck, like the white-scabs disease, can infect others.
First & Second Looks
In the Miro District
by Peter Taylor
Taylor measures every word, as if holding the world lightly by the throat.
Story of the Week
In the Prime of Their Lives
by Brad Watson
I was under a spell, those days. I had been ever since I’d first seen her.
Poem of the Week
In the Season of Facing Away
by Lee Colin Thomas
Some longings appear so frequently they must be instinct.