Recommended Reading From Online Magazines

Great new(ish) stories from around the Web. Forget work for a minute and read a story. It’s good for you.

– The houses are coming apart around here, piece by piece. The wind is a drunken sculptor, chiseling away the ornament. My boy comes home with his pants loaded with sand. There is grit in my bed, under my feet, in my cereal. My wife lives in sleep, and her lips taste like old licorice. Some days I wallow in remembrances of former, easier lives. — Todd Cantrell in the Collagist

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