FICTION

INTIMA FALL-WINTER 2025-26

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I Am Hamm | Austin Valido

Let’s look ahead: An actor becomes one with his standardized patient persona in this punchy futuristic take on medical training.

Mirella | Annette Leddy

An ordinary morning in the memory-care unit becomes so much more in this story our editor called “authentic, vivid, and a brilliant evocation of aging on mind, body and relationships.”

Pronounced | Shaoli Chaudhuri

“I wondered what exactly they were thanking me for.” A doctor reflects about a clinical encounter in this stirring meditation on Covid.

Rot | Oscar Kopljar

What a woman discovers while staying in her father’s vacant London flat leads to surprising twists and turns in this layered story exploring grief, faith and family dynamics.

Sammy's Still Screaming | Ron Turker

A pediatric surgeon opens up about his experience on the Navajo reservation, but it’s his patient, Sammy, who steals our hearts and teaches us how to listen.

The Slate | P.X. Vayalumkal

Set in 1950’s India, this taut moving story of artistic dreams and becoming a woman changes course when family visits.

Sweet Dreams | Moshe Gordon

A woman yearns for a chance to share her experience living with the rarer form of diabetes.

Undetermined | Evelyn Potochny

Biking to a precipice leads to new understanding in this reflection on loss and the poetry that helps us to understand it.

The Vent | Mariana Mcdonald

Humor helps a father face his fate when an unusual accident lands him in the hospital.