The Shadows Over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft ( hplovecraft.com )
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A.C. Wise, "Tekeli-Li, They Cry" (horror). ( www.thedarkmagazine.com )
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Margaret Atwood, "Widows". ( www.theguardian.com )
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A.M. Homes, "She Got Away". ( barcelonareview.com )
Clarice Lispector, "One Day Less". ( harpers.org )
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Yan Ge, "Sorrowful Beasts" ( www.newwriting.net )
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Mariana Enriquez, "My Sad Dead". ( www.newyorker.com )
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Joy Williams, "The Mission". ( harpers.org )
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Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, "The Crevasse" (horror). ( lovecraftzine.com )
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Miranda July, "Roy Spivey". ( www.newyorker.com )
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A.C. Wise, "The Children of Main Street". ( clarkesworldmagazine.com )
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“My Cheesecake-Shaped Poverty,” by Haruki Murakami ( www.newyorker.com )
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Hilma Wolitzer, "The Great Escape". ( electricliterature.com )
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Brandon Taylor, "Prophets" ( joylandmagazine.com )
Julia Armfield, "The Great Awake". ( www.thewhitereview.org )
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A.C. Wise, "The Stories We Tell About Ghosts". ( www.thedarkmagazine.com )
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The Sensitivity Reader, Andrew O'Hagan ( granta.com )
Alice Munro, "The Bear Came Over The Mountain". ( www.newyorker.com )
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C.R. Foster, "Saffron Farm". ( splitlipthemag.com )
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Diane Oliver, "Spiders Cry Without Tears". ( americanshortfiction.org )
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Leila Mottley, "Sea to Sea". ( www.marieclaire.com )
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The Guest by Albert Camus ( www.theatlantic.com )
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McKenna Marsden, "Toxins". ( pitheadchapel.com )
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A.C. Wise, "Sharp Things, Killing Things". (Horror) ( www.nightmare-magazine.com )
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