The New Old SouthBeast Fiction: None of Your Business“Kid lost his dog. Why don’t you go check it out.”
#flowercummerBeast Fiction: The Bulb Fields and the SpaldingerHe was aided at times by young women, and occasionally by men, but mostly he was alone…Alex Brook Lynn/ARBL Murray
SUMMERTIMEBeast Fiction: Dancer“Beth is weird and fat and white trash and unlucky and I am tall and normal and beautiful and educated. We are together now because of the ocean, because of surfing.”Rachel Signer
FAIR AND BALANCEDBeast Fiction: Alisyn Camerota’s ‘Amanda Wakes Up’Amanda Gallo is anchoring a hot new show—and taking on the most formidable candidate in a crazy election season.Alisyn Camerota
INTRIGUEBeast Fiction: Christopher Bollen’s ‘The Destroyers’‘What’s so bad about us really? Is it because we’re successful? We built the highways in the Middle East.’Christopher Bollen
FOG OF WARBeast Fiction: Brian Van Reet’s ‘Spoils’“She doesn’t have a target to shoot at. Everything breaks down to chance. There is no getting out of this.”Brian Van Reet
COMING OF AGEBeast Fiction: The End of EddyA young man recounts his childhood growing up gay in rural, impoverished France. Édouard Louis
BEAST FICTIONThe Story Banned by Israeli SchoolsRead an excerpt from the award-winning story of young, forbidden love between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man. Dorit Rabinyan
GIRLS WILL BE GIRLSBeast Fiction: Wild<p>A glittering short story from the new collection, <i>What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky</i>.</p> Lesley Nneka Arimah
FICTION SWIPEBeast Fiction: ‘Metcalfe’s Door’One day Metcalfe came home and the door to his room was gone. Some new disciplinary measure his mother had read about in one of her magazines.Pete Dexter
