Short Story
All We Remember Will Be Forgotten
When bees around the world exhibit a frightening new behavior, a researcher takes comfort in a familiar hive. Short Story
What Used to Be Caracas
Years after an extinction event nearly wiped out humanity, a team of scientists search Venezuela for signs of life and evidence of what caused the tragedy. Short Story
People Who Report More Stress
Beating cancer should be the biggest challenge in his life, not trying to catch a cab in Manhattan. Short Story
Communism Doesn’t Work
Stuck in an apartment with his ex-boyfriend, a man meets with the government agent who will decide whether the couple has really broken up. Short Story
Cannibal Acts
In the aftermath of a flu pandemic that kills most of the population, a survivor, barricaded in Alaska, remembers her life while contemplating a grisly choice. Short Story
Say Something
“He’s just a kid. Why are you putting a kid in handcuffs? This feels like profiling. Isn’t that what this is called?”
To the Fordham
In a pre-Giuliani New York where pornographic theaters create communities of dissimilar people, a young blue-collar worker and a homeless ex-con forge a connection through their shared enjoyment of public sex. Short Story
An Arrangement
“He says that he needs to talk to you about something. You feel your stomach churn. He says that he is sorry.” Their relationship in flux, two men go on vacation in Palm Springs to try to patch things up.
Surely, Not
“What’s worse than any pain is being without him, and what’s worse even still is that it’s his idea to go.”
Sultan of Hearts
The funeral of a family friend brings a musical legend from a bygone Iran back to town.
Get a Good Look at You
Sunil and Amy are just trying to find a Cambridge apartment they can afford when a call from Nairobi changes everything.
Shame
“She looks at her brilliant, talented mother and wants to cry.” A young Moroccan doctor makes an agonizing choice following a visit from her mother.
Last Day
On the day the Earth is supposed to end, Karen is entrusted to open the YMCA. An excerpt from New York Times bestseller Ruta’s new novel.
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