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  • “Wishes and Fears,” by Caleb Crain
  • “The Window,” by Helen Phillips
  • Literature within the reader and the writer

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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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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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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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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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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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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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newsroom.co.nz /1 month ago

Short story: Glass, by Rachael Taylor

A meaningless affair always has consequences The pos...

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yemenat.net /2 weeks ago

Fifty Years… O, Short Story!

yemenat Yemenat By Khaled Al-Yousef Translated by Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi When I wrote my story The Illusion of Rain in late 1397 AH/1977, it was published the following year, in 1398...

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newsroom.co.nz /2 weeks ago

Short story: Hide & seek, by Mel Johnston

The year's funniest short story, set in good old Bunnings Warehouse The post Short story: Hide & seek, by Mel Johnston appeared first on Newsroom.

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nytimes.com /1 week ago

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Hot Neighbor’

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

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newsroom.co.nz /3 weeks ago

Short story: The Waikato Farmers, by Craig Cliff

Farmers sear...

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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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crimereads.com /2 weeks ago

The Best Crimey Short Story Collections in Recent Years

I love a short story! And as a new mom, short stories are kind of all I can read right now. I love Jonathan Ames, and I just moved through The Double Life Is Twice as Good. And now...

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csmonitor.com /1 month ago

Sigrid Nunez’s stories surprised even her

The author of the novel “The Friend” felt a burst of energy that culminated in a short story collection. Her prose is warm, powerful, precise, and shattering.

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kirkusreviews.com /1 month ago

IT WILL COME BACK TO YOU

There are two kinds of people in the world, said Søren Kierkegaard: those who write, and those who don’t. Nunez, best known as a novelist, writes up a storm with her first story, “...

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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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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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nytimes.com /4 weeks ago

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Ended Up in Her Bed’

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

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

Emma Cline on Rendering the Human Experience

The author discusses her story “The Blight.”

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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

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nytimes.com /1 month ago

Tiny Love Stories: ‘How to Woo Her?’

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

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brevity.wordpress.com /1 month ago

Minim Opus: Baby Shoes and Learning from Rejections

By Steve Magnino As the tale goes, in the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway won a bet with fellow writers with this sentence: For sale: Baby shoes, never worn. They had wagered that he could...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

5 Great Classic and Contemporary Short Stories That Explore Time Travel

In our new novel, Time to Burn, commercial time travel has become a practical reality—albeit one available only to the very wealthy. Then a trip to 1940s London goes badly wrong, a...

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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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