Category: Fiction

  The kitemaker prospered for a time. He lived in the mountains of Fu Lan province, on the crumbling edge of empire, where his shop was a marvel to all who...

  Larry was the last one to meet Billy Nekkers, and he didn’t like him. Most of the other staff were charmed by the artist’s seething vitality, his brooding int...

The guy with stringy hair was still staring at Everett, which made Everett even more nervous, as if something was going on under the table with that guy.   Was ...

They had arrived in Prague in the middle of a rainstorm, the water pooling in gutters that ran down the center of the streets and prevented puddles as they roll...

  Back then we were mean kids, both of us. We knew it and celebrated it. We salted slugs in the street and watched them melt. We caught brook trout and plu...

  “You know what they call remodeling — the marriage buster,” Katia said, as she took a grim sip of her coffee in the disaster that was Tory’s future kitch...

  After our first year in southeastern Ohio my husband Ben said that he needed to spend the summer in a city, and that’s how we ended up, that June and Jul...

He was certainly one of the most famous tailors on all of Kyushu. Even women from big cities like Fukuoka and Kagoshima coveted his evening gowns and long skirt...

We had values.  We had Le Creuset pots.  We had fold-out couches in our living rooms, where we slept with our husbands at night.  Beside these couches, we had b...

  At a quarter to six, Kennen Cass begins his day on the roof of an eighteen-story building.  After he gauges the speed of the wind (ten miles an hour from...