Gosia Herba

Biography

Gosia Herba is an illustrator in Wrocław, Poland. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Strapazin, O the Oprah magazine, and La Nation. She has also designed album cover art for Universal Music in Poland.

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FICTION / Fall 2015

Worldly Goods

By Taylor Antrim ,  Illustration by Gosia Herba

As far as Henry could tell she never seemed to wonder what it all amounted to or who she was becoming. Her thing with Henry was part of it, too. She liked him. He was her type. She said this in a way that simultaneously turned Henry on and...
FICTION / Fall 2015

Other People’s Birthdays

By Ann Beattie ,  Illustration by Gosia Herba

Whatever it took to make it an arduous trip, and of course you couldn’t say the obvious, you had to smile and say there were worse problems blah blah blah. The mediocre glass of wine for thirteen dollars at the airport bar was one of them...
FICTION / Fall 2015

Happy Families Are All Alike

By VQR Staff ,  Illustrations by Gosia Herba

Introducing our Fall 2015 issue, featuring a suite of five short stories that share an insight into the curious ties that bind a family together.
FICTION / Fall 2015

Your Father Would Be Proud

By Elliott Holt ,  Illustration by Gosia Herba

His father’s apartment, with its floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, Oriental rugs, and views of Central Park, filled Helen with longing. She had always imagined herself in New York. She had always wanted a claim to that city’s streets. 
FICTION / Fall 2015

Efficient Breaches: A Romance

By Praveen Krishna ,  Illustration by Gosia Herba

As he fished the curds into his mouth, they gushed with the holy taste of rosewater. When the curds were done, he let himself drink the buffalo milk left in the cup, and, for the rest of the ride, Narayan could taste the grease on his lips...
FICTION / Fall 2015

The Lineaments of Gratified Desire

By Richard Bausch ,  Illustration by Gosia Herba

When he thought about it, he could see that this thing with Alexa Jamison was a betrayal of the idea of what Sonya and he had been: the romance of that. Such a sweet beginning seems always to create a following inertia: the two families...
FICTION / Winter 2015

Avarice

By Charles Baxter ,  Illustration by Gosia Herba

Master of the short story Charles Baxter has a new collection of linked stories, There’s Something I Want You to Do, out this February from Pantheon. Each of the ten stories is named for a virtue or a vice, and we’re proud to publish...
FICTION / Winter 2015

The Fathoms

By Amanda Korman ,  Illustration by Gosia Herba

Underwater, I opened my eyes. Bubbles moved like abacus beads across the hairs between my legs.

“You stay down there longer than the other women,” said Penina Sussman, who was watching me from the tile when I emerged. She held out a towel.
FICTION / Winter 2015

Dead Right There

By Aaron Gwyn ,  Illustration by Gosia Herba

The Sons of Cain were gone. The Sons of Cain didn’t exist anymore. I watched the detachment go up in an IED south of Ramadi, our five-ton Humvees leaping in the air, the taste of metal on the back of my tongue.
FICTION / Winter 2015

Soucouyant

By Tiffany Briere ,  Illustration by Gosia Herba

The mouse before me is dead, its body emptied of organs. Dead but still innervated, so still blinking in this world. I only harvest from their core—heart, lungs, liver, and the rest—but soon I will have to work with their brains.