George Saunders
The Falls
Morse crossed the St. Jude grounds just as the school was being dismissed, hoping Aldo Cummings wouldn't collar him. When Robert got home, he would make a new cardboard keyboard for him to practice...
Jon
Josh squeezed through the gap in just his Old Navy boxers, and we all voted to accept Mr. Slippen's Facility Morale Initiative. Carolyn and I requested that Mr. Slippen supply us with the...
Bohemians
Mrs. Poltoi and Mrs. Hopanlitski were widows who made pipe-cleaner animals. I cast Mrs. H. a plastic Lafayette. The summer I was ten, Raccoon and I were joined by Art Siminiak. Eddie the Vacant was...
Adams
Adams was standing in my kitchen one day, so I rolled him down the stairs into the early-spring muck and pulled Karen aside. After dinner, I mini-wonked him in the back of his head. Adams's house...
CommComm
Tuesday morning, Jillian from Disasters calls, and I go to my room to watch some World Series. Mom takes a bullet in the neck. Rimney could film all of Disney on a Super-8 camera, and his dad had a...
Puppy
Marie had pointed out the brilliance of the autumnal sun on the perfect field of corn twice already, and now Josh was practicing pitching by filling his Yankees helmet with pebbles and winging them...
Al Roosten
Al Roosten stood nervously behind the paper screen, answering "Yes" to the Chamber of Commerce's request to participate in an antidrug effort Celebrity Auction event. Larry Donfrey headed down the...
Victory Lap
Alison Pope imagined a baby deer trembling in the woods, and a choir singing of her foul end. Matt's huge cow head is being flooded by chemicals, and Alison likes being in charge of her. Kyle Boot,...
Escape From Spiderhead
Jeff and Heather were allowed to lie in the garden for nearly an hour, but then felt shy. Abnesti requested permission to pep up our language centers via VerbaluceTM, but our talking became less...
Home
A son returns home from war to find his mother facing eviction. He confronts her new partner and seeks refuge at his ex-wife's house.
Tenth of December
Wasn’t overcoming this feeling of fear what truly distinguished the brave?
Mother’s Day
Well, if he wanted a fight, she knew how to fight. She liked it. She was good at it. She’d make him pay. The way she always had.