31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 4: “The Umbrella” by Tove Ditlevsen; Michael Favala Goldman, trans.
Ditlevsen is merciless in denying her protagonist catharsis.
31 Days of Stories, Day 3: “Meet You at the Door” by Lawrence Hill
Hill's short story was first published in the Walrus in 2011.
31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 2: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
The story has numerous commonalities with Everil Worrell's pulp horror tale "Leonora."
31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 1: “Leonora” by Everil Worrell
Worrell foregrounds the degree to which male members of the medical establishment dismiss or ignore women's complaints.
31 Days of Stories 2023: Introduction
Short story writers operate in a literary form that seems endlessly malleable, protean, and open to experimentation.
“You got yourself into a Lindsay Wong story”: The author of Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality talks about ghosts, Chinese families, and her idiosyncratic approach to fiction
"I'm interested in that idea: when we transform ourselves, are we transforming our pain?"
Journey Prize amends its practices by declaring all contributors to anthology “winners,” awarding each $1,000
The journals in which the stories originally appeared will receive $200 per published story in the anthology.
Alan Moore stretches the generic definition of a story with a single volume that comprises eight short(er) pieces and one full-on novel
Its generic inappropriateness notwithstanding, "What We Can Know About Thunderman" is worth the price of the current volume all on its own.
Montreal-based writer Cassandra Khaw combines lyricism and brevity in short works of horror and dark fantasy
When Khaw is at their best, their writing has teeth – blackened, razor sharp, and ready to rend flesh.
31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 31: “The Witness for the Prosecution” by Agatha Christie
Chirstie’s story, which was later adapted by the author for the stage and by Billy Wilder for film, is exemplary of her patented twist endings.