Brown girls / Daphne Palasi Andreades, Kenyon Review --
Two nurses, smoking / David Means, The New Yorker --
Malliga homes / Sindya Bhanoo, Granta --
Endangered species: case 47401 / Crystal Wilkinson, Story --
From far around they saw us burn / Alice Jolly, Ploushares --
Things we worried about when I was ten / David Rabe, The New Yorker --
Scissors / Karina Sainz Borgo, translated by Elizabeth Bryer, Granta --
Witness / James Brinkley, The Paris Review --
The other one / Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker --
Becoming the baby girl / Adachioma Ezeano, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern --
The master's castle / Anthony Doerr, The House --
The living sea / Tiphanie Yanique, Harvard Review --
Freedom from want / Joan Silber, The House --
Fisherman's stew / Jowhor Ile, The Sewanee Review --
White noise / Emma Cline, The New Yorker --
Delandria / Asali Solomon, McSweeney's Quarterly Review --
Antediluvian / Ben Hinshaw, Harvard Review --
Grief's garden / Caroline Albertine Minor, translated by Caroline Waight, Granta --
To the dogs / Jianan Qian, Granta --
Color and light / Sally Rooney, The New Yorker.
