31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 27: “The Loves of Lady Purple” by Angela Carter
Lazarus, raised from the dead, is a potent biblical allusion for the marionette that comes to life as a woman.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 26: “Pending Licensor Approval” by Adam Cesare
"Pending Licensor Approval" is structured largely as a conversation between a writer and a bartender.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 21: “Brasília” by Clarice Lispector; Katrina Dodson, trans.
"But that is exactly how we live: lost in time and space."
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 18: “Glimmer” by Ian Rankin
"Glimmer" is a lean story, right from its declarative opening sentence.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 17: “Dead Set” by Cho Nam-Joo; Jamie Chang, trans.
"Dead Set" is a story that takes direct aim at the punishments that accrue to women in an unfair society.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 16: “Tomorrow” by William Faulkner
"Tomorrow" is a voice story and its narrative approach is, typical of Faulkner, complex.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 15: “Passing Through” by Vladimir Sorokin; Max Lawton, trans.
In the Soviet Union, Sorokin implies, the government is able to act in a most atrocious manner, while the minor functionaries who work the factories and offices have to carry shit.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 13: “Survivor Type” by Stephen King
King's accomplishment here is in combining his three levels of fear – terror, horror, and disgust – in a surprising and highly literary manner.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 12: “The Home Front” by Charles Ardai
The notion of redemption is an element of hardboiled crime fiction Ardai plays with in this story.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 10: “The Peacocks” by Yukio Mishima; Juliet Winters Carpenter, trans.
"Peacock killing was not a rupture but the sensual intertwining of beauty and destruction."