fiction

"The Penthouse"

The Baffler Logo

“The Measurers”

"How I Came to Understand"

"How I Came to Understand"

“The Double Life of the Cockroach’s Wife”

 "Money or Mystery"

 "Money or Mystery"

 "Drought #7" 

 "Drought #7" 

“Children”

“Children”

"The Fifth of July"

"The Fifth of July"

“The Messy Joy of the Final Throes of the Dinner Party”

“The Messy Joy of the Final Throes of the Dinner Party”

“Flesh and Blood”

“Flesh and Blood”

“One of us will be happy; it’s just a matter of which one”

“One of us will be happy; it’s just a matter of which one”

“It Should Be”

“It Should Be”

“Things We Do” (winner of DIAGRAM’s Innovative Fiction Contest)

“Things We Do”
(winner of DIAGRAM’s Innovative Fiction Contest)

“The Regimes” (winner of the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction)

“The Regimes”
(winner of the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction)

 
“The Joined” (listed as Recommended Reading by editors of Best American Fantasy Writing)

“The Joined”
(listed as Recommended Reading by editors of Best American Fantasy Writing)

 
“An Alien Education”

“An Alien Education”

Texts and Lessons for Teaching Literature “We #5” & “Fight #3”

Texts and Lessons for Teaching Literature
“We #5” & “Fight #3”

“The Eyeballs of Cecile” (winner of the Meridian Editors’ Prize)

“The Eyeballs of Cecile”
(winner of the Meridian Editors’ Prize)

“Drought #5”

“Drought #5”

“When the tsunami came” Issue 32.2

“When the tsunami came” Issue 32.2

“The Beekeeper”

“The Beekeeper”

“Five Wedding Tales”

“Five Wedding Tales”

“Twenty Tales of Natural Disaster”

“Twenty Tales of Natural Disaster”

“The Hauntings”

“The Hauntings”

“How I Began to Bleed Again After Six Alarming Months Without”

“How I Began to Bleed Again After Six Alarming Months Without”