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Three Essential Short-Story Magazines

In my younger and more vulnerable years, I used to subscribe to a number of magazines. Now, however, after two years ...

Boy vs. Girl: DAMAGE CONTROL: STORIES

Welcome back to Boy vs. Girl, in which we in which we (Marisa Atkinson and Casey Peterson) read and debate ...

Grading Karen Russell’s VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE, Story by Story

Everyone loves Swamplandia! author Karen Russell’s new collection of short stories. It’s basically got the “Universal Stamp of Amazing Awesome ...

Fresh Ink: New Books Out Today: March 5, 2013

BIG day for new books, y’all. Big day. I’ve written about a couple of these before, but they are so good ...

Five of the Best Short Story Songs of All Time

Short story songs are like short stories. They have plot, characters, rising action, climaxes, falling action, lessons about life and ...

GENRE KRYPTONITE: Short Story Collections

This is a guest post by Johann Thorsson. Johann is a writer of fiction with a supernatural slant, mainly short stories ...

Reading Pathways: Ray Bradbury

I have been working on this post on and off for a few months now. I could never decide how ...

20 for 2012: Short Story Collections

As lovers of short fiction already know, we’re smack-dab in the middle of National Short Story Month. Those who were ...

Short Stories, You So Trendy: From Linked to Thematic

So, those of us with fingers pressed against the pulse of the book world know that linked short stories have ...