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The Weight of Peaches
The dust rose from the gravel drive like a prayer nobody was listening to anymore...
Static from Tomorrow
The radio hadn't worked in seventeen years. Marta Kask knew this for a fact because the previous keeper had told her so, proudly, as if the broken Soviet-era piece of junk was some kind of monument to Estonian independence...
The Memory Keeper
The lightning came on a Tuesday night in October, when the Minneapolis sky was the color of old television static and Duc Nguyen was bent over a cracked iPhone 6, his magnifying headset making him look like some strange insect studying its prey...
The Night Shift
Hector was outside having a smoke when he saw the kid in the car. It was past midnight, still ninety degrees, and the boy was asleep in the backseat of a beat-up Honda, windows cracked for air...
The November Arrangement
The breakout room materialized on Priyanka Mehta's screen with the jarring efficiency of all things digital...
The Blood Between Us
The cutting floor at Heartland Meat Processing ran cold even in summer, but in February it bit through three layers of clothing like the knives through beef...