New Yorker: The Empties by Jess Row – Genre Metafiction
Published in the October 27, 2014 issue of The New Yorker, "The Empties" by Jess Row is a postapocalyptic (or is it distopian?) short story set in the Northeast. What grabbed me about this story was in the fourth paragraph, where Row's characters step back and view their own narrative. What story are we in? What's happening?