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- Your Favorite Short Story
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“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.
Your Favorite Short Story
“Brevity is the soul of wit.” —William Shakespeare * * * We’re all familiar with Shakespeare’s take on the subject of brevity. But in the 21st century, brevity may be the soul of...
Secrets of flash fiction revealed as writers gather for insightful Wicklow workshop - ‘It’s about what’s not said’
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...
HOLD STILL
When the muckraking journalist Barbara Ehrenreich died in 2022, her author son, Ben, decided to write a story every day to work through his emotions. The 85 pieces collected here a...
The fluff and the dust in my pocket
The fluff and the dust in my pocket. ...
“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.
Short story: The Doyles, by Tess Casey
A strange, beautiful story...
The Green Book | Chylla M. Ubisse | Creative Non-Fiction
For my husband, whose sacrifice made this journey possible, and whose perfectly timed playlists made every trip an adventure. *** Her phone buzzes in her hand, and she stops th...
Short story collection The Other Poet Drives a Black Mercedes shows Órfhlaith Foyle at the peak of her powers
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M ELAINE WILKINS: Good Will Books
Rachel bought books from Goodwill stores. Colorful jackets: flowers, buildings, people, animals. On buses, a book in her lap, she traced the cover before opening. Book upright. Tur...
Street Craft / Fantastic, Amazing, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir
Issue No. 133
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...
Why I Wrote this Book: Issue #66 — Poetry Issue!
Featuring David Ly, Conyer Clayton, Sanna Wani, and Jade Wallace David Ly, author of Ritual, Interrupted (Palimpsest Press, September 2026) I feel like I have a curiosity to be clo...
Perfect Strangers | Masimba Musodza | Fiction
Bryan shifted on the hard plastic chair. The overhead light buzzed steadily. The smell of burnt diesel and scorched plastic clung to his jacket, cutting right through the intervi...
PEOPLE I KNOW
The author explains in his introduction that he wanted to create pieces that “hung there in midair, suspended” without categorizing them as prose poetry, flash fiction, or micro-fi...
Trashlings Mess-Wights and other Fae Bogeys
Trashlings, Mess-wights and other Fae bogeys ...
Field Guide to Predators in Their Natural Habitat
The Photographs Never Develop Like You Imagine I’m a photographer, he said, I want you to pose for me.A camera dangled from his neck instead of a whistle—otherwise he was my dad’s...
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