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Fiction

Fiction / July/August 2005

Seven Love Letters

July 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by The Walrus

“Lubyanka, 2 September 1918” by David Bezmozgis My dear Mika, Though you have made it clear that you do not care for me, my heart nevertheless insists that I address …

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Illustration by Sam Weber
Fiction / July/August 2005

Pericles

July 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Yiorgos Skardonis

May 1941. The corn is high. There are two goatherds keeping watch over all the goats in Zostiko. A Greek and a Bulgarian. The Bulgarian is a big guy, enormous. …

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Illustration by Michelangelo Iaffaldano
Fiction / July/August 2005

Franklin’s Library

July 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Helen Humphreys

The sailor looks up from the book. He looks up, out of the oily coin of candlelight lying on the page. He can still hear the shore crowd at Greenhithe, …

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Illustration by Christopher Hutsul
Fiction / July/August 2005

Catechism

July 12, 2005December 19, 2021 - by Wayne Johnston

When hell freezes over it will look like that, he thought

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Fiction / June 2005

If Things Happen for a Reason

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Sara O'Leary

This will be something to tell our children. That’s the first thing she remembers him saying to her. They were in a taxicab and he was holding her hand. She …

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Illustration by Julie Morstad
April 2005 / Fiction

Wireless

April 12, 2005September 14, 2023 - by Lynn Coady

Jane salutes you from an age where to be an aficionado is to find yourself foolishly situated in the world

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April 2005 / Fiction

POETSMART™

April 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Susan Holbrook

Just like people, poets can develop unhealthy, adverse, and sometimes dangerous habits. Poets are cute but, let’s face it, they can disrupt a household. Like children, they need guidance and …

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Fiction / March 2005

Warlords

March 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Margaret Atwood

To be a warlord — that’s a little boy’s dream everywhere. Point a finger, say Bang, and thousands die. Most of these sharpshooters grow up to become dentists. But if …

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Fiction / October 2004

Samson and Delilah

October 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Jonathan Goldstein

Samson’s father was an Israelite named Manoah. Manoah was an intellectual and a man of peace. He believed the troubles between his people and the Philistines could be solved through …

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Photograph by Myles McCutcheon
Fiction / July/August 2004

Live Large

July 12, 2004June 15, 2020 - by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Billy Constable hadn’t been sleeping soundly and at four o’clock one June morning he found himself prowling his living room with a cup of coffee clutched in an unsteady hand. …

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