“My Cheesecake-Shaped Poverty,” by Haruki Murakami ( www.newyorker.com )
Hilma Wolitzer, "The Great Escape". ( electricliterature.com )
Brandon Taylor, "Prophets" ( joylandmagazine.com )
Julia Armfield, "The Great Awake". ( www.thewhitereview.org )
A.C. Wise, "The Stories We Tell About Ghosts". ( www.thedarkmagazine.com )
The Sensitivity Reader, Andrew O'Hagan ( granta.com )
Diane Oliver, "Spiders Cry Without Tears". ( americanshortfiction.org )
C.R. Foster, "Saffron Farm". ( splitlipthemag.com )
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Alice Munro, "The Bear Came Over The Mountain". ( www.newyorker.com )
Leila Mottley, "Sea to Sea". ( www.marieclaire.com )
The Guest by Albert Camus ( www.theatlantic.com )
McKenna Marsden, "Toxins". ( pitheadchapel.com )
Alice Munro, "Queenie". ( www.lrb.co.uk )
A.C. Wise, "Sharp Things, Killing Things". (Horror) ( www.nightmare-magazine.com )
Nathan Ballingrud, "The Maw" (horror). ( www.nightmare-magazine.com )
Maureen McHugh, "Liminal Spaces". ( reactormag.com )
A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief- Christopher Blake. ( strangehorizons.com )
Lauren Groff, "The Wind". ( www.newyorker.com )
Manuel Munoz-That Pink House at the End of the Street on the Other Side of Town. ( www.vqronline.org )
Kelly Luce, "The Ugliest Girl at Marcy's Wedding Pavilion". ( coloradoreview.colostate.edu )
Bonnie Jo Campbell, "My Sister Is In Pain". ( staging4.kenyonreview.org )
E. A. Petricone, One Song Ending ( apparitionlit.com )
Love Machine by Nic Anstett — Passages North ( www.passagesnorth.com )
Spirit of the Night by Tom Maddox (Science Fiction) ( www.baen.com )
A cyberpunk story originally published in 1987! Kind of interesting to see that era's depictions of cybersecurity and AI.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin ( files.libcom.org )
Ursula K. Le Guin is a fantastic writer of speculative fiction and the author of the earthsea fantasy series.