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New Fiction 2014

Short Stories

  • “I’m the Meat, You’re the Knife” by Paul Theroux (2013)
  • “Summer of ‘38” by Colm Tóibín (2013)
  • “Zusya on the Roof” by Nicole Krauss (2013)
  • “Samsa in Love” by Haruki Murakami (2013)
  • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce (1890)
  • “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie (1993)
  • “Rock Springs” by Richard Ford (1987)
  • “Same Place, Same Things” by Tim Gautreux (1991)
  • “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
  • “An Inch and a Half of Glory” by Dashiell Hammet (2013)
  • “Rough Deeds” by Annie Proulx (2013)
  • “Slide to Unlock” by Ed Park (2013)
  • “Happy Trails” by Sherman Alexie (2013)
  • “Scenes of the Crime” by Cormac McCarthy (2013)
  • “Brotherly Love” by Jhumpa Lahiri (2013)
  • “The Judge’s Will” by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (2013)
  • “Weight Watchers” by Thomas McGuane (2013)
  • “The Last Few Kilometres” by Leonid Tsypkin (2012)
  • “The Christmas Miracle” by Rebecca Curtis (2013)
  • “The Night of the Satellite” by T. Coraghessan Boyle (2013)
  • “The Lost Order” by Rivka Galchen (2013)
  • “Amundsen” by Alice Munro (2012)
  • “The Women” by William Trevor (2013)
  • “The Furies” by Paul Theroux (2013)
  • “Mayfly” by Kevin Canty (2013)
  • “Spilled Salt” by Barbara Neely (1990)
  • “The Laugher” by Heinrich Böll (1966)
  • “The South” by Jorge Luis Borges (1956)
  • “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” by Angela Carter (1979)
  • “The Seamstress” by Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette (19xx)
  • “Amy Foster” by Joseph Conrad (1903)
  • “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro (2013)
  • “Coming Soon” by Steven Milhauser (2013)
  • “Island of Manhattan” by René Marqués (1974)
  • “The Street-Sweeping Show” by Feng Jicai (1982)
  • “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
  • “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell (1917)
  • “Sarzan” by Birago Diop (1947)
  • “Paseo” by José Donoso (1969)
  • “Love Medicine” by Louise Erdrich (1982)
  • “Boys at the Rodeo” by Judy Grahn (1978)
  • “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1843)
  • “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway (1927)
  • “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes (1953)
  • “The Gilded Six-Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston (1933)
  • “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (1948)
  • “A Story for Children” by Svava Jakobsdóttir (1975)
  • “Greville Fane” by Henry James (1892)
  • “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett (1886)
  • “A Report to an Academy” by Franz Kafka (1917)
  • “A Hand in the Grave” by Ghassan Kanafani (1962)
  • “Betel Nut is Bad Magic for Airplanes” by John Kasaipwalova (1972)
  • “The Gold-Legged Frog” by Khamsing Srinawk (1958)
  • “My Mother” by Jamaica Kincaid (1983)
  • “A Bird in the House” by Margaret Laurence (1972)
  • “The Old Chief Mshlanga” by Doris Lessing (1951)
  • “Or Else, the Lightning God” by Catherine Lim (1980)
  • “Half a Day” by Naguib Mahfouz (1989)
  • “Her First Ball” by Katherine Mansfield (1922)
  • “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason (1982)
  • “The Appointment in Samarra” by William Somerset Maugham (1933)
  • “Lush Life” by John McCluskey (1990)
  • “The One Who Goes Farthest Away” by Katherine Min (1990)
  • “Swaddling Clothes” by Mishima Yukio (1966)
  • “How to Become a Writer” by Lorrie Moore (1985)
  • “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison (1983)
  • “Mrs. Plum” by Es’kia Mphahlele (1967)
  • “The Elephant” by Slawomir Mrożek (1962)
  • “And We Sold the Rain” by Carmen Naranjo (1988)
  • “A Horse and Two Goats” by R. K. Narayan (1970)
  • “The Pale Fox” by Ōba Minako (1973)
  • “In the Shadow of War” by Ben Okri (1988)
  • “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen (1953)
  • “Black Girl” by Sembene Ousmane (1962)
  • “Nomad and Viper” by Amos Oz (1963)
  • “The Blue Bouquet” by Octavio Paz (1961)
  • “Mona Lisa” by Cristina Peri Rossi (1983)
  • “Insomnia” by Virgilio Piñera (1956)
  • “Rope” by Katherine Anne Porter (1930)
  • “The Proof” by Rodrigo Rey Rosa (1987)
  • “The Prophet’s Hair” by Salman Rushdie (1994)
  • “Gimpel the Fool” by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1953)
  • “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck (1938)
  • “Learning to Swim” by Graham Swift (1982)
  • “The Betrayal” by Véronique Tadjo (1992)
  • “Half and Half” by Amy Tan (1989)
  • “To All Eternity” by Haldun Taner (1948)
  • “The Complete Gentleman” by Amos Tutuola (1952)
  • “Luck” by Mark Twain (1891)
  • “Strange Things Happen Here” by Luisa Valenzuela (1975)
  • “Sunday” by Mario Vargas Llosa (1958)
  • “In Africa There Is a Type of Spider” by Yvonne Vera (2000)
  • “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker (1973)
  • “Why I Live at the P.O.” by Eudora Welty (1941)
  • “Kew Gardens” by Virginia Woolf (1919)
  • “The Daily Woman” by Niaz Zaman (1996)
  • “Pet Milk” by Stuart Dybek (1981)
  • “Saint Marie” by Louise Erdrich (1984)
  • “The Mail Lady” by David Gates (1999)
  • “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amp Hempel (1985)
  • “Cold Snap” by Thom Jones (1995)
  • “The Management of Grief” by Bharati Mukherjee (1988)
  • “Meneseteung” by Alice Munro (1990)
  • “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx (1999)
  • “Strays” by Mark Richard (1989)
  • “Intensive Care” by Lee Smith (1988)
  • “The Way We Live Now” by Susan Sontag (1986)
  • “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan (1989)
  • “First, Body” by Melanie Rae Thon (1997)
  • “Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog” by Stephanie Vaughn (1978)
  • “Fever” by John Edgar Wideman (1989)
  • “Taking Care” by Joy Williams (1972)
  • “Terrified” by C. B. Gilford (1959)
  • “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” by William Austin
  • “The Wives of the Dead” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” by Herman Melville
  • “The Ghost in the Mill” by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • “Cannibalism in the Cars” by Samuel Clemens
  • “The Storm” by Kate Chopin
  • “The Sheriff’s Children” by Charles Chesnutt
  • “The Middle Years” by Henry James
  • “In a Far Country” by Jack London
  • “Old Woman Magoun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • “The Little Regiment” by Stephen Crane
  • “A Journey” by Edith Wharton
  • “The Strength of God” by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
  • “A Death in the Desert” by Willa Cather
  • “Blood-Burning Moon” by Jean Toomer (1923)
  • “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway (1933)
  • “An Alcoholic Case” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1937)
  • “The Girl with a Pimply Face” by William Carlos Williams (1961)
  • “He” by Katherine Anne Porter (1930)
  • “That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner (1931)
  • “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston
  • “Red-Headed Baby” by Langston Hughes (1934)
  • “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright (1987)
  • “A Late Encounter with the Enemy” by Flannery O’Connor (1953)
  • “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison (1948)
  • “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury (1950)
  • “Rain in the Heart” by Peter Taylor (1941)
  • “The Lecture” by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1968)
  • “My Son the Murderer” by Bernard Malamud (1968)
  • “Something to Remember Me By” by Saul Bellow (1990)
  • “The Death of Justina” by John Cheever (1960)
  • “Texts” by Ursula K. Le Guin (1990)
  • “The Persistence of Desire” by John Updike (1959)
  • “Alaska” by Alice Adams (1984)
  • “Are These Actual Miles?” by Raymond Carver (1972)
  • “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff (1976)
  • “Big Bertha Stories” by Bobbie Ann Mason (1988)
  • “Fleur” by Louise Erdrich (1988)
  • “Gravity” by David Leavitt (1990)
  • “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros (1989)
  • “Town Smokes” by Pinckney Benedict (1987)

Video Games

  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door dev. Nintendo and Intelligent Systems (2004)
  • The Walking Dead: 400 Days dev. TellTale Games and Skybound Entertainment (2013)
  • Papers, Please dev. Lukas Pope (2013)
  • Actual Sunlight dev. Will O’Neill (2014)
  • Castles in the Sky dev. The Tall Trees (2014)
  • The Walking Dead: Season 2 dev. TellTale Games and Skybound Entertainment (2013-2014)
  • Shovel Knight dev. Yacht Club Games (2014)
  • The Simpsons: Tapped Out dev. Electronic Arts (2012-2014)

Novels

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (1997)
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
  • The Getaway by Jim Thompson (1958)
  • The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (1988)
  • Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (1993)
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

Comics

  • Wolverine: Old Man Logan by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven (2008-2009)
  • Black Hole by Charles Burns (1995-2005)
  • “Soup” by Irene Koh (2014)
  • We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (2004)

Films

  • 200 Cigarettes dir. Risa Bramon Garcia (1999)
  • Wild Boys of the Road dir. William A. Wellman (1933)
  • Detour dir. Edgar G. Ulmer (1945)
  • Two-Lane Blacktop dir. Monte Hellman (1971)
  • The Manchurian Candidate dir. John Frankenheimer (1962)
  • Patton dir. Franklin J. Schaffner (1970)
  • Badlands dir. Terrence Malick (1973)
  • On the Road dir. Walter Salles (2012)
  • Smoke Signals dir. Chris Eyre (1998)
  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert dir. Stephan Elliott (1994)
  • Cabeza de Vaca dir. Nicolás Echevarría (1991)
  • Ida dir. Pawel Pawlikowski (2013)
  • Pacific Rim dir. Guillermo del Toro (2013)
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon dir. Michael Bay (2011)
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes dir. Matt Reeves (2014)
  • Edge of Tomorrow dir. Doug Liman (2014)
  • Wicked City dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1987)
  • The Equalizer dir. Antoine Fuqua (2014)
  • The Homesman dir. Tommy Lee Jones (2014)
  • The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies dir. Peter Jackson (2014)
  • Godzilla dir. Gareth Edwards (2014)

Short Films

  • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” dir. Robert Enrico (1962)
  • “I’ll Wait for the Next One” dir. Phillippe Orreindy (2002)
  • “Zen & the Art of Landscaping” dir. David Kartch (2001)
  • “Inja” dir. Steve Pasvolsky (2002)
  • “Kitchen Sink” dir. Alison Maclean (1989)
  • “Gridlock” dir. Dirk Beliën (2001)
  • “Black Rider” dir. Pepe Danquart (1993)
  • “Our Time Is Up” dir. Rob Pearlstein (2004)
  • “Six Shooter” dir. Martin McDonagh (2004)
  • “Spider” dir. Nash Edgerton (2007)
  • “Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade” dir. George Hickenlooper (1994)
  • “More” dir. Mark Osborne (1998)

Television

  • Dexter – Season 8 (2013)
  • Sherlock – Series 3 (2013)
  • Adventure Time – Season 1 (2010)
  • Over the Garden Wall (2014)
  • Bee and Puppycat – Season 1 (2014)

“All my life I’ve been a lonely boy.”
Somber this, somber that.
A man’s showering technique says much about his character.
There’s a certain level of skeeve here, but what is acting, what is by design, what is the reality of the setting and characters?
Dialogue is out of an episode of Seinfeld.
Ben Gazzara? I mean, Jackie Treehorn?
You always blame the kicker.
I had me some Goon hair until all that rustling got to me.
“Don’t do bad things. Just don’t do any bad things.”
What is this? Post-industrial fantasy? Super reality?
Made sure the bed was straightened after he sat on it.
Okay, yes—Christina Ricci’s tits.
Life is an improv. Didn’t they teach you the rules of improv? You go with it. You move forward. Don’t trip anybody up.
To fall for a pouter is obvious.
They dance for you and lose interest when you pay attention.
D’you ever get caught up in a stranger’s ways, goin along on some sorta immeasurable tangent where you were just tryna get through your shit for another day, and later, when you’re back to your shit, you don’t know who you’d be if you hadn’t.
Reminded of that motel room in Chicago. The blinking red.
The red room from my visions.
What is the significance of the red shoes / What is the significance of the black hat.
Confront the 2nd person.
A nice girl to bring hot chocolate to is all.
No one can expect the happy ending. We simply hope.
KT: There is a level of realistic portrayal that helps a work achieve its tone without the sense of overproduction. The midwest and the east are familiar but distinctly strange. If it seems too outlandish it’s all the more believable/real.

“All my life I’ve been a lonely boy.”
Somber this, somber that.
A man’s showering technique says much about his character.
There’s a certain level of skeeve here, but what is acting, what is by design, what is the reality of the setting and characters?
Dialogue is out of an episode of Seinfeld.
Ben Gazzara? I mean, Jackie Treehorn?
You always blame the kicker.
I had me some Goon hair until all that rustling got to me.
“Don’t do bad things. Just don’t do any bad things.”
What is this? Post-industrial fantasy? Super reality?
Made sure the bed was straightened after he sat on it.
Okay, yes—Christina Ricci’s tits.
Life is an improv. Didn’t they teach you the rules of improv? You go with it. You move forward. Don’t trip anybody up.
To fall for a pouter is obvious.
They dance for you and lose interest when you pay attention.
D’you ever get caught up in a stranger’s ways, goin along on some sorta immeasurable tangent where you were just tryna get through your shit for another day, and later, when you’re back to your shit, you don’t know who you’d be if you hadn’t.
Reminded of that motel room in Chicago. The blinking red.
The red room from my visions.
What is the significance of the red shoes / What is the significance of the black hat.
Confront the 2nd person.
A nice girl to bring hot chocolate to is all.
No one can expect the happy ending. We simply hope.
KT: There is a level of realistic portrayal that helps a work achieve its tone without the sense of overproduction. The midwest and the east are familiar but distinctly strange. If it seems too outlandish it’s all the more believable/real.

Survive.
“I just missed your heart.” Always the heart. Guaranteed it will repeat.
Flip the switch; be a woman.
Laika’s story always ends the same way.
The military-industrial complex is strong with this one.
How can anyone trust a uniformed white man who smiles? Investigate innate racial bias.
The desert. Open. Wild.
The killings in the fields far from your home.
Cate Blanchett is in all of the films.
Unto the world of men. Life, voices, music, kettles, Arabic, guns, bombs, beds.
Snarky Brits.
And insufferable family road trips are not missed by this man.
Esas Españolas se ven que son de sangre furiosa.
“We need paper or computers so we don’t have to ask people their name or look them in the face.”
Abandoned Cold War playgrounds.
As comes maturity, so comes death.
Satisfaction—it ends with the heart.
KT: Story is essential to action, but action is not beholden to story. Sexualization is not always characterization. The confidence of knowing takes one far. There is always a quest to create the master race.

Survive.
“I just missed your heart.” Always the heart. Guaranteed it will repeat.
Flip the switch; be a woman.
Laika’s story always ends the same way.
The military-industrial complex is strong with this one.
How can anyone trust a uniformed white man who smiles? Investigate innate racial bias.
The desert. Open. Wild.
The killings in the fields far from your home.
Cate Blanchett is in all of the films.
Unto the world of men. Life, voices, music, kettles, Arabic, guns, bombs, beds.
Snarky Brits.
And insufferable family road trips are not missed by this man.
Esas Españolas se ven que son de sangre furiosa.
“We need paper or computers so we don’t have to ask people their name or look them in the face.”
Abandoned Cold War playgrounds.
As comes maturity, so comes death.
Satisfaction—it ends with the heart.
KT: Story is essential to action, but action is not beholden to story. Sexualization is not always characterization. The confidence of knowing takes one far. There is always a quest to create the master race.

My right heel is fucked and I’m spitting blood.

And now I’m finally watching The Crying Game.

When the apocalypse comes, there won’t be a single moment of regret. No wishing, no crying, no ache for something that never came to pass. Just a recollection of everything up to the point in time when it comes to an end. If I knew it was coming, I’d be right here, doing this, because there is no other life.

Some people sit in silence and smile for their own reasons. I like to think they see what’s coming and revel in what they have right now.

My right heel is fucked and I’m spitting blood.

And now I’m finally watching The Crying Game.

When the apocalypse comes, there won’t be a single moment of regret. No wishing, no crying, no ache for something that never came to pass. Just a recollection of everything up to the point in time when it comes to an end. If I knew it was coming, I’d be right here, doing this, because there is no other life.

Some people sit in silence and smile for their own reasons. I like to think they see what’s coming and revel in what they have right now.