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Alexandre Luu Wolves of Karelia
A short story
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Sally Deng Toward Happy Civilization
A traveler plots an escape from a rural train station. A short story
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Julien Capmeil Mama’s Haven
A short story
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Tomer Hanuka Rib Night
A war story
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Melinda Josie The Drone King
A newly discovered short story by Kurt Vonnegut
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Topical Press Agency / Getty Deeds Not Words
Love and suffragism at a girls’ school in 20th-century England. A short story
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Elena Chernyshova Novostroïka
His apartment had no heat. Worse: Council officials said his building did not exist. A short story
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Yana Paskova O
An exhibition of unintended consequences. A short story
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Katie Baum The Wall
A short story about family and class. A short story
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Attitude Adjustment
After surviving a gruesome accident, a Catholic priest struggles with life. A short story
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Richard Gin / The Atlantic Scenes From a Marriage
“What’s it like?,” Natalie said quietly. “Marriage, I mean.” Mathilde said, “Kipling called it a very long conversation.” A short story
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Trent McGinn Hex Keys
Father's Day 1972—an oddball quest. A short story
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Eric Ogden The Rhett Butlers
He is 40. You are almost 17. You know his kiss is coming, that day in the classroom, but still it surprises you. A short story
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Matthew Woodson Magnified
What if Lee Harvey Oswald had lost his nerve? A historical novelist—who is also a student of the Kennedy assassination—imagines what might have happened next.
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Charles Gullung The Contest
A short story
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Bryce Duffy Reply to a Dead Man
"My heart started beating rapidly after the third time I read the letter. I could have sat there and guessed for a hundred years and never come up with what my brother had to say." A short story
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Onward
Love happens, like age or weather. It’s not hard to do, only to endure, sometimes. A short story
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Lindsay Hebberd/Corbis Ice Man
He saw deputies in their serious hats coming through the restaurant from the kitchen, four white guys who looked like they meant business. A short story
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Brian Finke Honors Track
“The exam went off without a hitch, and from there, stopping just didn’t make sense. Before each Calc test, we convened at Jill’s house to work out the answers.” A short story
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The Case of George Dedlow
An absurdist short story about a Union doctor—which many Atlantic readers erroneously believed at the time to be nonfiction.
