31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 4: “Investment Results May Vary” by Zsuzsi Gartner
Zsuzsi Gartner's precisely calibrated, vicious little parable is about the things we want but can't have.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 3: “Musique Concrète” by Amparo Dávila; Audrey Harris and Matthew Gleeson, trans.
Amparo Dávila's uncanny story of psychological torment has echoes of Poe and Kafka.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 2: “The Interior Castle” by Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford's story is a close and incisive work of psychological fiction.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 1: “The Finkelstein 5” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's story is a satire about the cascading violence that results from institutional racism.
31 Days of Stories 2020: Why stories?
Short stories offer a different kind of pleasure from other forms of literature, a pleasure not curtailed by a story's relatively small size.
The eyes have it: “I Am the Doorway” by Stephen King
Stephen King's short story "I Am the Doorway" rides the line between science fiction and horror.
Hingston and Olsen’s Short Story Advent Calendar celebrates five years
Editor Michael Hingston and designer Natalie Olsen celebrate five years of producing the Short Story Advent Calendar.
Thieves in the night: “The Body-Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1884 chiller “The Body-Snatcher” is a tale of supernatural horror with moral overtones.
Shocking and frankly aversive: “A Member of the Family” by Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark’s pitiless treatment of her characters is on full display in the merciless irony of “A Member of the Family.”