By Gina Frangello
Her senses were different now, since the baby.  Things jolted her.  She heard crying that was not there.  Sometimes, she felt the baby’s weight on her chest, heavy against her heart and breasts, and woke up gasping only to find the baby asleep in her own dresser drawer across the bedroom.
Rebecca’s hands had [...]

By Amber Dermont
After busting the Andro Boys for scoring an ounce off of Downtown Homeless Pete, we retreated to the roof of the Octagon to smoke the evidence. Sammy Chatterjee — Business and Economics — packed the bowl while Regina Racela — Video and Film Production — described how the buffest offender had offered her [...]

By Lauren Grodstein
Natalie Beacham was the hottest girl on campus, and a little too perfect. She was beautiful, smart, and very Catholic. Marc Bernstein was a lazy, inexperienced freshman. Could he get his act together — and wipe the drool from his chin — quickly enough to get the girl? And say he got her. Then what?

By Ryan Boudinot
Imagine you lived in a town where everyone shared the same heart, and lived reliant on a vast system of valves and pipes. If you were a teenager in love, with big dreams, you might wish for a way out — for a heart of your own.

By Lewis Robinson
Steven was harboring a big secret from his girlfriend, Alice — he’d decided to be a surrogate father with a colleague. But the secret made him jittery and defensive, prone to rash acts and wild emotional swings in his real relationship. And then there was the toothache.

By Emily St. John Mandel
In the darkness of a hotel room in a small town in Kenya, I awake to the sound of a ringing phone. There’s only one telephone in the entire establishment, on the reception desk a few feet from the door to my room. It takes a long time for someone to [...]

By Pia Z. Ehrhardt

By Marcus Sakey
It’s the eve of the 21st century, and the dot-com boom is still something to believe in. Tech companies will transform the world! While handing out stock options! To us all! Roger is planning a Y2K party for his firm, but his single-mindedness might cost him his relationship. And then, there are the monkeys.

By Arthur Phillips

Leslie had only recently been discharged from the hospital. Baking helped her work through some of her obsessive issues — until, that is, one particularly pushy baguette revealed a small face, and begged her not so slice him open and stuff him in the oven.

By Josh Emmons
Cameron Salters was tired of settling down. He wanted to be a musician, not an investment banker. And was it so wrong to wish for a girlfriend who could be as moved by classical music as she was by the crummy multiplex romantic comedy? Say he met someone in the city, at Christmas time? Could they inspire each other to become who they wanted to be?

By Patrick Somerville
Join the universe’s most bumbling but oddly endearing space travelers on their mission to Belvetron IV. And hope that they don’t destroy the planet and their own spacecraft along the way.

By Taylor Antrim
Max wanted to write and never imagined he’d land on Wall Street. Sarah, however, was ticketed for finance from the crib. When she lost her job amidst an even bigger change, their relationship was bound to change. But how?

By Evie Wyld
While visiting your loved one, we encourage you to remain calm and supportive to the patient. Make eye contact and provide encouragement. Don’t be afraid to touch the patient.
Coming out of the anaesthetic was like coming out of the sea. I bobbed to the surface and wanted a drink. I could have slept [...]

By Glen David Gold
The men of the 339th Infantry Regiment were ready for battle. But the young men from Detroit weren’t expecting to invade Russia. Or for a very wild train ride.

By J. Robert Lennon
It was Amy’s senior year of high school, and she was ready to move on from her friends, the boys, her parents. But while her hometown bored her, there was something interesting and mysterious about her neighbor, an artist who lost his wife in a tragic accident.

By Jami Attenberg
The man upstairs is jerking off again. I can hear the porn through the ceiling. No one watches that stuff just for fun. Little kids, maybe, sneaking a peek at their daddy’s collection. But eventually it all ends in the same way.
I can’t do anything about it. I can’t knock on his door and ask him to turn [...]