MyParty. Finds. A Home.

by Annie Proulx Ennis Del Mar wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in around the aluminum door and window frames. The shirts hanging on a nail shudder slightly in the draft. He gets up, scratching the grey wedge of belly and pubic hair, shuffles to the gas burner, pours leftover coffee in a [...]

by MARY GAITSKILL The Washington Post MagazinePosted 2004-05-09 We were supposed to have just one. But on our way out the door to meet the bus, we got a call from our local volunteer: There’d been a screw-up, she said. There was an extra kid on the bus, a 6-year-old named Christopher with no place [...]

by NICOLE KRAUSS The New Yorker Magazine (Fiction) Issue of 2004-02-09 Posted 2004-02-02 *I am currently reading Krauss’ second book “The History of Love”. While reading the book, I had a weird feeling that the first few chapters of the book felt familiar to me. As it turns out, I have read, at one point, [...]

By ISAAC ASIMOV I am an Asimov fan. Always have, always will. Robotics is a reality that is rapidly (and smartly) evolving in our lifetime. I would like to think that, by depicting what could be or what could happen in the future, Asimov and his stories help us better prepare for the future. We [...]

By NEIL GAIMAN I suppose that I could claim that I had always suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for something deeper and weirder and infinitely more strange, and that, in some way, I already knew the truth. But I think that’s just how the world has always [...]

By TONI MORRISON This is Toni Morrison’s only known published short story. This work was generally an experiment in communicating without racial codes. Guess who’s black and who’s white in this story? I guess it’s her ingenius way of bringing home the point how real life truly is color-blind. ~mrs.p My mother danced all night [...]

By ROALD DAHL DOWN below there was only a vast white undulating sea of cloud. Above there was the sun, and the sun was white like the clouds, because it is never yellow when one looks at it from high in the air. He was still flying the Spitfire. His right hand was on the [...]

Shorts are great. They’re long enough to cover all the basics, yet brief enough to keep the interesting things intresting. But, hey, it’s not what you think. I love short stories. And, you don’t even have to wash them These here are some of my favorites, which I found lurking online. I think it’s but [...]