31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 31: “The Underside of a Wing” by Paola Ferrante
Ferrante's tale shows the ongoing potential for the short form to continue to evolve outside a strictly mimetic mode.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 30: “lived experience” by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Belcourt's tactic in "lived experience" is to trouble this unquestioned notion of progress and urban gentrification.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 29: “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
The presentation of the technology in the story firmly situates it in the tech skeptic realm.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 28: “Started Early, Took My Dog” by Caroline Adderson
Throughout the story, relationships between and among the characters are drawn in different shades.
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 23: “Ogbuefi” by Vincent Anioke
The passage into manhood for Chibuike involves the shedding of innocent blood.
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: “BrasÃlia” 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.