Converge

By Rick Andrews

“Hey Nate. It’s Ben. I’m sorry to say that I’m in your room. Quiet in here.”

The Only Reason to Kill

By Jeffrey DeVries

“A train trip from Cologne to Groningen in December can be a delight. The train snakes like a silver wire through a snow-clad landscape.”

The Summer of Abby

by Ria Parody Erlich

“I often imagine making a movie about Abby Chapman and me featuring one of those intense cloudbursts that roll through New Orleans on summer afternoons.”

Chau

By Martina Amate Perez

“Five days had passed, sixty were left to go at Dragados Construction.”

Plaid-Belly

by Shelley Sheremeta

“The scent of detergent bit into Oksana’s nose like straight pins.”