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Ghost of Ten - by Shara Sinor

I can’t describe the scene to you in the exquisite detail I’d like to be ableto. How did the light hit the paper? I don’t know. Who was around me?I don’t know. The color of the carpet? I have no idea, though I’d been in that house several times. It was 13 years ago. ...more

A Hundred Years at 15 - Xujun Eberlein

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My grandfather picks up a bamboo pole used to herd ducks, and chases my grandma across the yard in front of their thatch house. Crunching under her feet are the pale-yellow shells of harvested rapeseed spread under the sun to dry. "You unworthy hen who doesn't lay eggs!" He shouts, swinging the pole...

Down in the Valley - by Kevin Lutz

I was eighteen sitting in the oversized chair of a doctor's office. She reclined in her leather chair, legs crossed at the ankles, tips of her sensible shoes tapping the carpet....more

Cut to the Chase - Sophie Beck

We were trying to get the gold ingots out of Monte Carlo. Maybe. Nope. Not right. We were evading the Russian mafia after that deal went sour in Stalingrad and we had to strangle their emissary with a piece of pig gut after a long and brutal struggle in the meat packing plant. ...