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  • “One and No One,” by Gabriel Winslow-Yost
  • “Wishes and Fears,” by Caleb Crain
  • Secrets of flash fiction revealed as writers gather for insightful Wicklow workshop - ‘It’s about what’s not said’

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

“One and No One,” by Gabriel Winslow-Yost

When the angel came to Craig, he was seven, squatting in the outhouse at camp.

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newyorker.com /1 week ago

“Wishes and Fears,” by Caleb Crain

It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house.

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independent.ie /4 days ago

Secrets of flash fiction revealed as writers gather for insightful Wicklow workshop - ‘It’s about what’s not said’

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brittlepaper.com /1 week ago

Brittle Paper Flash Fiction Competition Winners!

  The Brittle Paper Flash Fiction Competition results are in! To celebrate our debut Literary Festival, held on 29 August 2026, we had a Flash Fiction competition, and over 250 sub...

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

“The Window,” by Helen Phillips

Yes, pulling the shade was my nightly task, and she’d never think to do it, but already I was half an hour away from home.

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writeoutloud.net /1 week ago

The fluff and the dust in my pocket

The fluff and the dust in my pocket. ...

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newyorker.com /6 days ago

“Motherji,” by Akhil Sharma

Radha had always believed that the world was evil and people malicious. But her sense of evil had been that of an ordinary person.

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

“Tributaries,” by Kyle Edwards

He heard her crying out in the dark. He couldn’t be sure if it was in sadness or joy or both.

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newyorker.com /2 weeks ago

“Every Weekday at 4:45 P.M.,” by Libby Flores

In the delicious heat, a summer breeze came and they fought as the woman sucked her ice cream through the bottom of her cone.

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writeoutloud.net /1 week ago

In The Book

First tuesday of the month as always....

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kk.org /1 month ago

Humans of New York / Star Stuff

Issue No. 126

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kk.org /1 day ago

Weird Love / The Marvels

Issue No. 134

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miramichireader.ca /1 month ago

Mind the Gap by Alice Zorn

As in the piece that provides the book’s title, when Barbara meets her Austrian cousin Freddy as an adult, much has changed in the interim.

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newsroom.co.nz /1 month ago

Short story: First and last, by James Pasley

A love story set on Auckland's North Shore The post Short story: First and last, by James Pasley appear...

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omanobserver.om /2 weeks ago

Literature within the reader and the writer

In Yahya bin Salam al Mundhiri’s three stories collected under the title A Brief Moment of Panic, published by Arab Publishing House, fear takes many forms: fear of loss, lonelines...

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kk.org /3 weeks ago

Make: Fun! / Baba Yaga’s Assistant

Issue No. 131

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independent.ie /1 week ago

Short story collection The Other Poet Drives a Black Mercedes shows Órfhlaith Foyle at the peak of her powers

Fiction

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nytimes.com /1 month ago

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Strange Shame’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

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buzzmag.co.uk /2 weeks ago

KARISHMA JOBANPUTRA writes short fiction with poetic qualities on her debut

Karishma Jobanputra’s fiercely contemporary, strikingly poetic The Body Of The Thing focuses on the pleasures and displeasures of the female flesh. The post KARISHMA JOBANPUTRA wri...

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bookriot.com /1 month ago

Baby’s First Metafiction

From a girl who turns the page to an alligator fighting with the narrator of his story, I hope you enjoy these five very meta stories!

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kk.org /1 week ago

Street Craft / Fantastic, Amazing, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir

Issue No. 133

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buzzfeed.com /1 week ago

Everyone Is Talking About "Fruit Fly": Good Luck Finding A Physical Copy

The secret to a sold out book? Go gay. Go sad. Go dark.View Entire Post ›

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fiftywordstories.com /2 weeks ago

DEBORAH TAPPER: How The Bookworm Made A Novel Escape

Strolling through hardbacks and softcovers. Exploring chapters, encountering soliloquies, negotiating allegories and metaphors. Words became her banquet: she drank descriptions and...

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kk.org /1 month ago

Book Freak #219 — Deep Cut Edition

Beggars of Life: The hobo memoir that helped invent hardboiled prose

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