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Chaos Theory

By Courtney Zoffness

The Idiots

By Amanda Goldblatt

Mourn and Organize

By Olivia Schwob

Mother Tongue

By Olajide A. Omojarabi

Christos Ikonomou

Christos Ikonomou was born in Athens in 1970. He has published three collections of short stories, All Good Things Will Come From The Sea, The Woman On the Rails, and Something Will Happen, You'll See (a collection from which this story was taken), which won the prestigious Best Short Story Collection State Award when it was published in its original Greek. Something Will Happen was the most reviewed Greek book of 2011. The English translation will be published by Archipelago in March.
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The Things They Carried

By Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich November 2, 2015

They needed a way to keep the fire going until morning—that was another thing they had on their minds.

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