Skip to main content

[facebook] [twitter]

Welcome to VQR Online

Illustration by Rachel Levit-Ruiz

The Post That Stays

By Laura Kolbe

Traveling in Italy and Greenland in my teens and early twenties with a fitful and rudimentary cell phone, an impatience with the sweaty, masculine funk of internet cafés, and only the haziest notion of planning, I adored and relied on the magic of the general-delivery mail system—also known as the poste restante.

That Pink House at the End of the Street on the Other Side of Town

By Manuel Muñoz
Looking

By Kathryn Savage
Night Piece

By Mark Strand

Most Popular

Illustration by Pat Perry

Cookie Jar

By Stephen King

Illustration by Ina Jang

The Male Glance

By Lili Loofbourow

By Juan Carlos

Prince of Peace

By Lauren Markham

Illustration by Jun Cen

Fear Factors

By Veronique Greenwood

Photograph by Elizabeth Felicella

Omnipresence

By Ann Neumann

Featured Author

Yannick Murphy

Yannick Murphy’s most recent book is the story collection By the Time You Read This (Alabama, 2021).