Raymond Carver Contest — Stories — Carve Magazine | HONEST FICTION
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To Love a Stranger is Certain Death by Brandon J. Choi

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To Love a Stranger is Certain Death by Brandon J. Choi

In the summer of 2006, when my hometown’s beloved Choi’s Videos went out of business, Mr. and Mrs. Choi decided to sell their inventory as a last-ditch effort before retiring and moving across the street from their eldest son in North Carolina

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Birdsong by Abby Provenzano

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Birdsong by Abby Provenzano

I didn’t notice when the bird first found me. Even though my parents and brother and I moved a lot, every moving truck to every house we ever lived in across New England to the Midwest brought the same spotted-wood birdhouse, stone birdbath, hanging feeders.

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The Paper Tiger by Lindsay Kennedy

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The Paper Tiger by Lindsay Kennedy

Nina did not want to pose with the tiger, but as the animal was the circus’s greatest attraction and people had come for miles around to see it, she felt she could not refuse when her turn came.

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The Fourth by C. Adán Cabrera

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The Fourth by C. Adán Cabrera

It all went down just before the Fourth of July the year I turned ten. All week long my siblings and I had been too scared to ask Mamá and Papá whether we would have as many fireworks as we did the year before.

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Sandhill Cranes by Anna Prawdzik Hull

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Sandhill Cranes by Anna Prawdzik Hull

Tía Consuelo, with her big mouth and big earrings and eighties perm, sits me down at the kitchen table and says, “I don’t want you to work for that puto.” By puto, she means Johnny González, owner of Speedy G Car Wash on San Mateo.

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The Enchanted Forest by Brian Crawford

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The Enchanted Forest by Brian Crawford

The foreman had gone into town to spend the night with a stewardess, leaving Roy and Tommy alone at the mountain fire station with a radio and a water tanker they weren’t supposed to drive.

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The Ghost Rider by Erica Plouffe Lazure

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The Ghost Rider by Erica Plouffe Lazure

No one outside Nashville had ever heard of Billy Dice’s All-Stars until last night, when our drummer, Marty Marshall, fell through the plate glass window down at Clyde’s Country Corner.

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