The Best Small Fictions 2016 Quotes

“The sound of dogs howling from the next homestead over. But the space between our houses grows while I sleep. The forest around me deepens. The trees fall in love and multiply. The snow an intoxicant. I pray the pines don’t get bolder, that they don’t grow organs and hands.”
― Stuart Dybek, The Best Small Fictions 2016

“Moreno is a good doctor. He is also a prick. When I dislocated my shoulder last summer, he said, “Just relax big guy, I’ll reset it on the count of five. Close your eyes.” I felt the bone lurch back into place on “two.”
― Stuart Dybek, The Best Small Fictions 2016

“A crowd of tourists were standing in the laundry room. They were speaking languages.”
― Stuart Dybek, The Best Small Fictions 2016

“Most men complimented my sexual vigor, thinking I owed it to them. All of them credited themselves afterwards, but the dour clown just lay there. For a moment, I thought I loved him.”
― Stuart Dybek, The Best Small Fictions 2016