October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

The Anatomy of Todd Melkin by Catherine Malcynsky

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

The Anatomy of Todd Melkin by Catherine Malcynsky

After seeing an episode of Law & Order in which a mother murdered her infant child by forcing it to swallow a kitchen sponge, forty-one-year-old Todd Melkin was even more convinced that he had a tumor in his brain.

July 15, 2016

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Summer 2016

Restoration by Ann Joslin Williams

July 15, 2016

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Summer 2016

Shortly before Kenton Pierce discovered the bones — human bones — he flushed thirteen ruffed grouse.

January 15, 2016

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Winter 2016

La Cuesta Encantada by Colette Sartor

January 15, 2016

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Winter 2016

The last thing Althea needed with Owen missing was Irene nosing around.

January 15, 2016

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Winter 2016

And Again to the Principal's Office by David Andrew Stoler

January 15, 2016

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Winter 2016

And Again to the Principal's Office by David Andrew Stoler

Jon could imagine three possibilities as to why he had been called to Principal Minelli’s office, none of them good.

October 15, 2015

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Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

Arrangements by Charles Watts

October 15, 2015

Carve Magazine

Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

To her, the man standing in the center of her flower shop resembled a brightly painted piñata.

October 15, 2015

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Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

Kudzu by Andrea Bobotis

October 15, 2015

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Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

She could barely make him out. He—she was certain the figure was a he—was a fleck, a disturbance on the horizon, and—this was another certainty—he was coming her way.

October 15, 2015

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Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

Jack Nicely by Amanda Pauley

October 15, 2015

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Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

Jack slowed the orange VDOT truck, lurching to a stop in front of the carcass on the side of Route 603.

October 15, 2015

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Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

The Giant by Joe Shlichta

October 15, 2015

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Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

Reina was six years old when her father took her up the long winding mountain road to see the dying Giant.

July 15, 2015

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Summer 2015

Tarumae-zan by David M. Morini

July 15, 2015

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Summer 2015

Near the edge of Lake Shikotsu in southwest Hokkaido, Yuudai Takahashi claimed a patch of flat, dry land.

June 15, 2013

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Summer 2013

Cigarettes in Heaven by Jon Pearson

June 15, 2013

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Summer 2013

Bill felt such a feeling of forgiveness, sitting in his truck at the light.

December 15, 2012

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Winter 2012

Literature Appreciation by Man Martin

December 15, 2012

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Winter 2012

Because of a morning assembly and then a fire drill during first block, first lunch was postponed...

September 15, 2012

Carve Magazine

Fall 2012, Raymond Carver Contest

The Odyssey by Jia Tolentino*

September 15, 2012

Carve Magazine

Fall 2012, Raymond Carver Contest

An 18-wheeler carrying ten thousand kilos of watermelons had wrecked spectacularly, spilling its cargo from a height of two kilometers, near the peak of the Tu-Ashu mountain pass that looms over the cold northern provinces of Kyrgyzstan.