31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 11: “Milk” by Anuja Varghese
From Chrysalis The stories in Anuja Varghese’s debut collection inhabit the liminal space between realism and myth. In “Bhupati,” which...
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 9: “Burial Ground” by Carleigh Baker
From Last Woman In his 1978 film Dawn of the Dead, George A. Romero sets zombies and a group of...
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 8: “Progeny” by Philip K. Dick
In the world of Dick's story, efficiency and rationality are paramount.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 8: “Hairs on Me” by Virginie Despentes; Will McMorran, trans.
"Hairs on Me" is a complicated reckoning with female desire and the kind of bodily insecurity a media-saturated world imposes on women.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 6: “This Is Not a Story” by Denis Diderot; Edward Marielle, trans.
Like his contemporary, the Irish monk and writer Laurence Sterne, Diderot proved well ahead of his time.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 5: “Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?” by Elyse Gasco
Gasco has endowed her story with something that is terribly unfashionable in book club circles and social media feeds: an unlikable narrator.
31 Days of Stories, Day 4: “The Mummers Parade” by Bridget Canning
The shifting ground of motivation and relationship between the two characters is brought out metaphorically in the mummers' costumes.
31 Days of Stories, Day 3: “A Degree of Suffering Is Required” by Christine Estima
From The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society Did Yoko Ono have an orgasm at the climax of the song “Kiss Kiss...
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 2: “The Real Thing” by Henry James
The story is on one level a comedy of manners; on another, it is a careful and cutting critique of capitalism.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 1: “The Easter Lilies” by Jane Gardam
The bare bones of Gardam's story appear minor and parochial; this belies the depth and complexity the author infuses into her tale.