It’s Inventory Week at Baumgartner Plumbing Supply. Their parents are gone and, for five nights, won’t be home until morning. At nearly sixteen, Heidi has been told she is no longer a child and is the...

Karen Multer is a Chicago-based writer, essayist, and professional speaker. She's also a composer who licenses her original music for TV and film.

By the time St. James Elementary rang out the midday Angelus, three things were evident: The pothole at the corner of Rose and 2nd still hadn’t been filled,

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by Karen Multer I wrote the new word in the back of my blue notebook, carefully copying out the correct definition: malinger—to feign sickness or injury in order to avoid duty or work. I read it to m...

We were special and we knew it, the six of us. We’d been selected to participate in a Revolutionary Educational Experiment,…

The sweat was leaving a stain in the small of her back and the sequins of her sleeveless gown were rubbing her armpits raw with every movement. A small group of children crowded around her while sh…

The shortlist for the Booker Prize 2024 has been announced