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Editor's Pick, Fiction, On Writing

Read our Five Best Small Fictions nominees!

By turns surreal, familiar, inventive and astonishingly written – immerse yourself in these five stories that we are delighted to nominate for Best Small Fictions ...

by Farhana Khalique | February 3, 2023February 3, 2023
Editor's Pick, Fiction, On Writing

READ OUR SIX PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES!

Dive into these spellbinding stories from our writers who have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! Continue Reading READ OUR SIX PUSHCART PRIZE ...

by Litro | January 25, 2023January 26, 2023
Editor's Pick, Fiction, StorySunday

Fox in the Snow

“I feel like a character in a fantasy novel living in some snowy village. Trading our goods, listening to stories. .” Today’s #StorySunday USA is ...

by Yurina Yoshikawa | January 22, 2023February 6, 2023
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations

BOOK REVIEW: WAKE ME UP AT 9 IN THE MORNING

Reading this novel is like falling a mind map, with landscape, characters and crimes carefully plotted. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: WAKE ME UP ...

by Barbara Wheatley | January 5, 2023July 1, 2024
Fiction, StorySunday

The Smell of Penance

In search of witch doctors in today’s Story Sunday USA, a man tries to outrun his past. Continue Reading The Smell of ...

by Mayookh Barua | December 11, 2022December 11, 2022
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations

BOOK REVIEW: LET NO-ONE SLEEP

Sometimes, a larger-than-life bird woman is all a book needs. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: LET NO-ONE SLEEP

by Robert Montero | November 26, 2022November 26, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

The Dark Room

Lucy knows all these things about him, and more. She keeps them filed away in a special part of her brain, the part of her ...

by Joanna Acevedo | November 20, 2022October 19, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Snare

He doubts if moving in with her might have felt too natural a course to take. Natural enough for him to forget when. And he ...

by Suphil Lee Park | November 13, 2022October 17, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

The Monk Seal

Without money or connections, what value did his friendship have? But the analysis changed if he’d transgress on Conor’s behalf. His transgressions would make him ...

by Ryan White | November 6, 2022November 6, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Cold Comfort

Narratives. It was all about narratives. Continue Reading Cold Comfort

by Anthony Schneck | October 30, 2022October 14, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Slumming It

There are moments, situations, that define relationships, when there is a rightness between two people – the way that a society host and hostess, cold-shouldering ...

by Sam Kahn | October 16, 2022September 16, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Between the Ground and Sky

Toward the end, Ben had taken to carrying a photo of himself in his wallet. On the surface, he knew it seemed an act of ...

by Andie Weber | October 9, 2022October 14, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Dead and Gone

Back inside the tavern, the dining room had grown dark and empty except for a handful of guests at the far end of the bar ...

by Kelly Piner | October 2, 2022October 14, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, short story, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Urgent

“There aren’t any seats left and standing people have already taken up a lot of the wall space. I stand in front of a table ...

by Lauren Baker | September 25, 2022September 12, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Notes of Improvement on Parisian Trains

“Empty, she wrote, even though it wasn’t an improvement, because sometimes she just wrote what she saw.” Continue Reading Notes of Improvement on ...

by Graham Marema | September 18, 2022September 12, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: NEWS AT NOON

A capering comedy, set against the backdrop of a pandemic, which throws in some legitimate and thought-provoking concern around the influence of new media. ...

by Adam Ley-Lange | September 15, 2022September 20, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Mother Goes to Italy

She ran from this loneliness all the way to Italy, hoping it wouldn’t find her there. Continue Reading Mother Goes to Italy

by Isabella Barrengos | September 11, 2022August 12, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Real Time

Sometimes what I thought was the end was only a pause. Continue Reading Real Time

by Mary Rechner | August 21, 2022July 27, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Hey, Bob, Aren’t Ya Talkin’?

He turns into the hallway, walks its length, then grabs the gold knob on the storage room door. Locked. He walks back to the men’s ...

by Jeff Blechle | August 14, 2022July 26, 2022
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Wartime Generations

The day was beautiful. Perhaps it was a good day to die for the right reasons. Continue Reading Wartime Generations

by Jason Arment | August 7, 2022July 26, 2022

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