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Literary short stories! Here's a taste of this issue:

Kim Brooks
The Shelter
The air was hot, but he could not tell if the heat emanated down from the sky or up from the earth. He stepped over a dead man who was wearing a fine wool jacket, holding onto its lapels as if it might do him some good. Where had he gotten a jacket like that?

Scott Alan Anderson
Saints Alive
A bleached-blond woman in a sequined sweatshirt appeared at the door. "That statue is for the feast,"; she said, "and my husband's chair of that feast, and the feast's next week. The saint stays right here." She pointed to the floor with both hands.

K.L. Cook
The Man Who Fell from the Sky
Neil and Ben spilled onto the parking lot with what seemed a million other people. Neil felt again the enormity and absurdity of this event, how exotic to file into this concrete dish with so many other people to watch fifty boys chase a pigskin around for nearly three hours. What a great country.

Sari Rose
As in Life
The former mayor was jailed, re-elected, then died. The rubber factory moved away and the Naugatuck rubber workers took office jobs in Waterbury or line jobs on the other side of town, where they made lipstick tubes and safety pins.

Jennifer Moses
Child of God
All the respectable people, the parents with kids to raise, moved out.

Rolaine Hochstein
Don't Tell the Cuzzins
The cousins were as breathless in their rush for respectability as their ancestors had been in their flight from Europe to escape the Czar, and also, of course, the attentions of everyday anti-semites.

Patricia Foster
Best Place on Earth
While Jed talks about the acreage, John wonders if he's had his eyes closed or if he's just been daydreaming, staring at the light shimmering through the pale green curtains, making them seem thin and gauzy.

Caryl Phillips
Interview by Kevin Rabalais
The type of writers that I read then and the type of writers that I return to now are, for want of a better term, the engineers, people like Faulkner and Márquez, Twain and Conrad…These are not always people I want to read for pleasure, but I read them to try to understand how to move a story, how to get four wheels on a narrative and get it moving.

Thisbe Nissen
And the Night Goes Off Like a Gun in a Car
Kirk's folks have generously been putting me up since we closed on the sale of my parents' apartment, and though I'm appreciative, I can't say I relish the thought of an evening with Stan and Muffy. Or, as some of us prefer, Man and Stuffy.

Anasuya Krishnaswamy
Notre Bien Aimee
"What does the snow taste like?" Safa leans her head back and swallows."It's like ice, but a very fresh taste on the mountain. Sometimes it tastes like pine, if it's fallen or blown off a tree."

Garth Risk Hallberg
Jubilee
As I watched the cousins it occurred to me that baseball was the one sport that wasn't a metaphor for war. There was no struggle for turf, no real contact. The point, if there was one, was to get home safe.

Steve Almond
Interview by Aaron Gilbreath
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Ahead of the Curve provides a comprehensive view of the challenges of assessment from a classroom, system, and leadership standpoint and examines the many perspectives of effective assessment design and implementation. The distinguished contributors to this volume support the premise that the fundamental purpose of assessment is not to rate, rank, and sort students, but rather to provide meaningful feedback that leads to improved performance. The authors believe that assessment is most productive when its purpose is for learning rather than for simply measuring it.

•Section 1 explores the issues of classroom assessment.

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•Section 4 addresses the issues of assessment leadership.

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Interviews with Wayne Dyer, Mary Morrissy. ... Read more

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Stories by different authors Roy Parvin, Susan Fox, Thomas Kennedy, Felicia Olivera, Michael Upchurch ... Read more

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More great literary short fiction from established and emerging writers. Well-crafted, emotionally moving stories, unique author profiles, and gorgeous cover art--a satisfying collection for serious readers. ... Read more

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Danielle Lavaque-Manty
The Safety of Milk
She'd begun saying this soon after their wedding, whenever she grew anxious about something he planned to do.

William Luvaas
Ashes Rain Down
Ashes pile in drifts against fences, turn our lawns calcium white, make a foul, acrid soup of water in dogs' bowls. They sift down collars, creep through walls, and form a fine pellicle over the furniture.

Al Sim
Soledad
Enough sunlight filtered in for Rico to see what he was doing, so he left the lights in the big room turned off. The weather was unusually cool, so the swamp cooler was off too, and the windows all stood open.

Ruth Ozeki
Interview by Kyoko Amano
As you can imagine, we have these things that we care about passionately, but if you die too quickly, if you die too soon, you've got all these unfinished projects.

Thomas O'Malley
Monstrum
There were no more Apollo rockets. I was thirteen now, and it had been three years since mother had taken me from The Home and over a decade since the last Apollo astronaut bobbed on a tethered spacewalk or toddled, unsteady as a child, upon the moon.

Andrea Cohen
The Pretty Lady Brand
Back when we were having trouble, Inge planted three hundred bulbs in the backyard. She tucked them into the rock-studded earth one bleary afternoon just before the ground froze. Later she said, "I didn't know if I'd be here when they came up, but I figured seeing those flowers might be nice for you, might make you happy."

Eric Trethewey
Jefferson Street
His large jowls spread out from beneath a railroad cap, and he got progressively wider all the way down to the ground. His legs spread apart, like the legs at one end of a sawhorse, to support his tremendous weight.

Jay McInerney
Interview by Victoria Blake
I think one of the things that I discovered for myself and subsequently exploited in the book was that the second-person singular is the most common form of our interior monologue. When you look into the mirror after you've done something stupid, you don't say, "I idiot," you say, "You idiot."

Christopher Bundy
Walking on the Moon
Ivan Karnow leaned into the foyer of his thirties-era bungalow, one foot in, one foot out, the smell of garlic and ginger familiar.

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Great new literary short fiction. Eight stories by emerging and well established writers. One interview with Allen Morris Jones, acclaimed author of Last Year's River. ... Read more