The Invention of Morel
One of these people, a woman, sits on the rocks to watch the sunset every afternoon. She wears a...
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A Confederacy of Dunces
Along the block some people were out on their porches looking at him and the motorcycle. The...
Damned If I Do
Warm and Nicely Buried “Mrs. Marotta, Jose is gone.” The woman took Fragua’s...
Invisible Man
At first I thought it was a cop and a shoeshine boy; then there was a break in the traffic and...
Nutshell
In the early afternoon the phone rings and the future introduces herself…
Invisible Man
“Come in,” I said. The door opened slowly. A group of youth members crowded forward,...
Homesick for Another World
A full short story by Ottessa Moshfegh called Nothing Ever Happens Here
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Can I have another Xanax?” Reva asked. “I can’t spare another, Reva. Sorry.” She was quiet for a...
The Furious Passage of James Baldwin
He was about ten, and puny for his age, when two Harlem patrolmen stopped him in an empty lot....
Scoop
That evening, sometime after the advertised hour, Mr. Salter alighted at Boot Magna Halt. An hour...
The Dispossessed
Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains… and so on and so on up to the generals, who could give everyone else orders and need take them from none, except the commander in chief. Shevek had listened with incredulous disgust. “You call that organization?” he had inquired. “You even call it discipline? But it is neither. It is a coercive mechanism of extraordinary inefficiency
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
A few days before I flew to San Francisco to meet Adria, I posted a message on 4chan/b/ asking for...
