31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 22: “Her Ex Writes a Novel” by Shashi Bhat
"Fiction is a more subtle and sophisticated revenge porn."
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 20: “Half-Pipe” by Zoe Whittall
Whittall manages a delicate balancing act: she addresses an incident of sexual assault without turning her story into a simple trauma narrative.
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 14: “The House on the Esplanade” by Anne Hébert; Norma Scott Stoddart, trans.
The critic Delbert Russell referred to the story as "a mordant criticism of the artificiality and emptiness of the life of the haute bourgeoisie of Quebec."
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.