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Short Stories from our Archives
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July 30, 2019
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The Relic Thief

Although Italians were officially despised by the grownups in Paul’s Irish family, everyone seemed to have at least one Italian best friend.
By unagidon
December 5, 2011
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You Will Be Missed

What kind of people don’t see their only sibling for years, then show up at her husband’s funeral? What kind of Irish joke are you?
By Alice McDermott
December 8, 2014
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Zeal

Some people think Catholics oppose progress here below. Look on your garbage can and what do you see?
By J.F. Powers
February 10, 1956
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Company

By the time Diego moved in, I was forty and Diego fifty, our marginal existences long established. We ranted about the torture regime he once fled. We danced tangos.
By Valerie Sayers
July 9, 2016
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Workers of the World

Because I’d read all the relevant names in college, my family made the error of looking to me to help mend my brother Vin’s blighted mind, to somehow rescue him.
By William Giraldi
August 2, 2019
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