31 Days of Stories 2021: Why read short stories?
Stories require attention and concentration and often yield their meanings only over time, or in retrospect. But the best stories reward vigilance and repeated reading.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 1: “The Finkelstein 5” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's story is a satire about the cascading violence that results from institutional racism.
31 Days of Stories 2020: Why stories?
Short stories offer a different kind of pleasure from other forms of literature, a pleasure not curtailed by a story's relatively small size.