Fiction & Poetry
![People in a field.](http://web.archive.org./web/20200720110103im_/https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5f107ced559b0ea7be05c662/4:3/w_620,c_limit/200727_r36770.jpg)
Fiction
“The Lottery”
“The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”
The Writer’s Voice
The Poetry Podcast
Flash Fiction
“Courage”
![A girl in the middle of a vast Wyoming landscape with cows.](http://web.archive.org./web/20200720110103im_/https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5d5c35cb1b8bd50008433705/4:3/w_116,c_limit/Smith-Courage.jpg)
“Selfishness was its own form of courage, and in fact was, within reason, exactly the kind of courage that he had in mind.”