{"id":4949,"date":"2025-01-17T03:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/?page_id=4949"},"modified":"2025-02-05T17:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:53:57","slug":"fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"WHR Vol 5\u2013Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container content-page-container \">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"container content-page-container \">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h4>\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">***<\/h4>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5041\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/245\/2025\/02\/WINTER-24_2025-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1601\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">***<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h5 class=\"row\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0 Maya Stein<\/em>\u00a0\/\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/a-small-town-on-the-water\/\">A Small Town On the Water<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Amit Modha<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/marble-bleeding\/\">Marble Bleeding<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Eva Lebowitz<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/good-things-come-to-those-who-wait\/\">Good things come to those who wait<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Kate Terry<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/the-curb\/\">The Curb<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Chana Fisher<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/the-children-of-the-golden-sun\/\">The Children of the Golden Sun<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><em>Demetria Glennon<\/em>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/stepping-out\/\">Stepping Out<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<h5><em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><em>\u00a0\u00a0 Rina Gallo<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/the-itch\/\">The Itch<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"container content-page-container \">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Nicholas Diodato<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/a-buck-and-a-mucker\/\">A Buck and a Mucker<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Francesca Dodaro<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/hungry-for-more\/\">Hungry for More<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><i>Sahana Narayan<\/i>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/a-tale-of-two-brothers\/\">Vijaya Dashami: A Tale of Two Brothers<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: inherit;font-size: 1.2em\">Mason Springer-Lipton<\/em><span style=\"color: inherit;font-size: 1.2em\"> \/ <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1.2em;background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/uno\/\">UNO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Carolyn Jiang<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/prunes\/\">Prunes<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Anusree Iyer<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/trembling-hands-a-war-story\/\">Trembling Hands: A War Story<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container content-page-container \">\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Mya Baitz<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/4409-2\/\">The First One is the Hardest<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"container content-page-container \">\n<h5><em>Alexei Bessarab<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/three-hundred-forty-million\/\">Three Hundred Forty Million<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"container content-page-container \">\n<h5><em>Gabrielle Weir<\/em> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-5-winter-2024-2025\/dust\/\">Dust<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*** *** \u00a0\u00a0 Maya Stein\u00a0\/\u00a0 A Small Town On the Water &nbsp; 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