[•2020 Readers' Choice Winner for Best Beginner's Story and Nominee for Best Overall Story•] Lauren Allert is a pediatric oncology nurse whose spirit has been crushed by the burden of hope. It takes a strong person to take care of kids with cancer, and her resolve is quickly eroding. Wounded, Lauren works hard to shie...
Ajay isn't quite happy. He's a 20 something adult, in college, wondering what to do with his life. And then there is Joe. One of those person who simply makes everything better. They meet in the laundry room. They form a friendship through music and Joe's gentle bullying of him. They fall in love. Because that's alway...
One evening in March, Timothée consoles a girl who has lost her cat - a girl sitting on the wall outside his apartment building in the dingy glow of the street lamp. The cat, it turns out, is fine, but their meeting sparks something else, something both Timothée and the girl will have to come to terms with. Something...