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September 16, 2014 | Nonfiction

The Fisherman

Hunter Sharpless

At first sight the line, nearly invisible but sometimes catching a ray of sun through the clinging water droplets, ran parallel to the brown water’s surface, from the tip of the pole held by the fisherman standing in the shallows out to unknown depths.

The Fisherman photo
Peanuts photo

September 15, 2014 | Fiction

Peanuts

Stephanie MacLean

The donkey got loose at about noon. 

The Hat photo

September 10, 2014 | Fiction

The Hat

Sam Wilson

The weekend in Portland, Oregon, had been our first vacation without kids in almost five years, and I'd had this vision that my wife and I would feel unshackled and adventuresome again.

Self Interview with a Hideous Man photo

September 9, 2014 |

Self Interview with a Hideous Man

Trevor Dodge

But you know, all of us prose writers in the United States have to deal with the shadow he casts and the work he left behind.