A month later, someone started making small withdrawals from his account, from ATMs up and down Nevada. The amounts were not material, and anyway it was his own money. His wife had insisted they each keep separate financial lives. "You never know what'll happen," she'd said, "and I always want to be able to make it on my own."
--From "Withdrawals," a story by Brian Crawford, Vestal Review, Issue 56 (January 2020).
A woman walks past my stall every afternoon in this spot at 4:15.
A woman walks past my stall every afternoon in this spot at 4:15.
--From "The Crayfish Seller," a story by Richard Berry, 100 Word Story (July 2019).
1. Start with three shapes to form the neck, shoulders, and rump.
--From "How to Draw a Horse," an illustrated story by Emma Hunsinger, The New Yorker (December 30, 2019), pp. 40-49. (Online it is in the section called Culture Desk. In print, it was Sketchbook by Emma Hunsinger / May 30, 2019. This graphic story appeared in the Cartoon Takeover issue.)
The young man usually dropped by the woman's West Side wine and spirit shop around 5 p.m. for a bottle of Almaden Chablis. He came with the throng of rush-hour customers, and she didn't yet know him as one of the regulars. She was still learning such basics as the shelf location and prices of the items, and although the man brought the same wine to the counter every time, she invariably had to check the price and look up the tax. Some customers who stuck to one brand would tell her the price, but not this one.
--From "Almaden," a short story by Kim Chi-wŏn. It was published in the anthology The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women, which was translated and edited by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton (Zephyr Press, 2016), pp. 25-32.
"Almaden" was my favorite story from this collection, but I particularly liked two other stories from The Future of Silence as well: "Dear Distant Love" by Sŏ Yŏng-ŭn (pp. 33-56) and "Identical Apartments" by Pak Wan-sŏ (pp. 57-78).
1. Start with three shapes to form the neck, shoulders, and rump.
--From "How to Draw a Horse," an illustrated story by Emma Hunsinger, The New Yorker (December 30, 2019), pp. 40-49. (Online it is in the section called Culture Desk. In print, it was Sketchbook by Emma Hunsinger / May 30, 2019. This graphic story appeared in the Cartoon Takeover issue.)
The young man usually dropped by the woman's West Side wine and spirit shop around 5 p.m. for a bottle of Almaden Chablis. He came with the throng of rush-hour customers, and she didn't yet know him as one of the regulars. She was still learning such basics as the shelf location and prices of the items, and although the man brought the same wine to the counter every time, she invariably had to check the price and look up the tax. Some customers who stuck to one brand would tell her the price, but not this one.
--From "Almaden," a short story by Kim Chi-wŏn. It was published in the anthology The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women, which was translated and edited by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton (Zephyr Press, 2016), pp. 25-32.
"Almaden" was my favorite story from this collection, but I particularly liked two other stories from The Future of Silence as well: "Dear Distant Love" by Sŏ Yŏng-ŭn (pp. 33-56) and "Identical Apartments" by Pak Wan-sŏ (pp. 57-78).