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Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.<br/>Excerpts:<br/>Terrence Cheng<br/>The Merchant<br/>All familiar faces, part of a community that worked and lived and fought and struggled together, some behind open doors, some behind closed. Many from the same clans back in Guangdong, so that even here in New York there was a sense of home, of living a familiar life while still dreaming a new one.<br/>Vauhini Vara<br/>We'll Rise Above the Sky<br/>"I sometimes think if Dad and I had split up earlier, Priya wouldn't have gotten sick," she says. "What do you think?" "That's not true," I say. "Nothing is related. People just invent causes and effects where they don't exist. Things just happen."<br/>Adam Theron-Lee Rensch<br/>A Day in the Life<br/>John can only think of Sean, waiting at home. He needs to get back to see him, to not be the type of father who isn't near when his child falls asleep.<br/>Rawi Hage<br/>Interview by Jeremiah Chamberlin<br/>To capture the real, transform it into a believable fiction, is a bizarre process. Blurred. The delusion in my writing is just accentuated to a form of overt madness and the exploration of madness. Violence is a form of madness; so is the poetic and the creative.<br/>Selena Anderson<br/>Here Come the Brides<br/>But in what my father called a real moment of lunacy, he married my mother and became someone's husband again. There were four moments of that, four wives altogether.<br/>John Stazinski<br/>Bangor<br/>At thirteen some boys give up church. But we were never a church family. Instead I gave up these weekend trips to see my felon father. Both are ways of rebelling, but also, I suppose, ways of seeing sleight of hand where magic once was.<br/>Amy S. Gottfried<br/>Chim, Chiminy<br/>Even the older kids seemed to have jam all over their hands. Not that he was sorry about any of them. He just never planned on spending the bulk of his adult life walking around with a soggy sponge in his fist.<br/>Sam Ruddick<br/>Fl