Jennings has not come to her bed in eight days, not since the dog died. He begged her to bury the dog, weeping while she looked out the window at the orange trees, eight hundred acres of dark leaves …

The job took her first to Boulder, scenic city under peaks, then to Albuquerque, gritty city under peaks, and now down to the border, henpecked city under peaks, in a town named for crosses. Las …

My best friend Grace has this circus, and the two of them go everywhere together, her and her circus, because they’re in love.        Even I have to admit that it’s the real thing, and I …

1. False Husband        Not long before we board, another passenger has a request. I don’t think I look sympathetic. Mirrored, there’s only my empty face, waiting for some emotion to twitch …

The professors are having trouble with their marriage.        They have been married for twenty-five years and have each had one affair. They know about the other’s affair and usually they …

Winner of the 2012 Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, selected by Victor LaValle  It is difficult for me to talk about Sarla Shah. These days everyone has a label for her. Some labels I find too …

First came the Bridge of Grocery Tins in Terre Haute. For months, Meredith picked through dumpsters as far north as Clinton and as far south as Farmersburg, even across the Illinois line. She loved …

Weeks, he’d been collecting his thoughts, and now he had them. They were caught in two suitcases, one flannel with a zipper, the other black with brass piping and buckles that clicked when they …