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Short story winner of the $65K Ockham fiction prize

Short story: The long way home, by Majella Cullinane

Short story: In the forest, by Sherry Xu

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Short story: Family friendly, by Jemma Richardson

“Stories,” by Annie Ernaux

I believed that, when it came to words, everything was allowed.

A Side of Metamorphosis With Your Coffee, Hon?

The following story was chosen by Simon Rich as the winner of the 2026 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. The prize is awarded annually by Selected Shorts and a guest au...

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.

Domestic prisons and gilded cages

David Flusfeder’s Something Might Fall arrives as a compelling reminder of the novella's unique, minimalistic power

The Beyond | Zakaria Bychlifen | Fiction

  “Love, calm down. It’s not worth it.” He looked at her—at those empty eyes. The furniture behind her was a blur, as hazy as the love they had once shared. He had been cooking din...

Tiny Love Stories: ‘As He Dressed, I Slipped Into His Closet’

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

RALPH GOLDSWAIN: Taking it down

The demolition crew didn’t speak; they arrived in their crawler crane, set up, and struck. Space after space—a broken heart, wedding bells, a joyous birth, a thousand banquets, a m...

“The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai,” by Jamil Jan Kochai

Fifty years and I dream of him still, fifty years and every story, every joke, every bit of news or gossip leads back to him still.

Short Stories for Perverts

These short stories for perverts are unconcerned with what you think. They are audacious and fearless in their pursuit of emotional truths.

SAANVI THAKUR: The Book that Blinked First

The library breathes at dawn. A girl opens a forbidden book; ink rearranges the future. Footsteps chase her between shelves. She chooses courage, not prophecy. Outside, sunlight wa...

The Smallest of Things 

A lesson from a Pulitzer Prize–winning story. 

Tiny Love Stories: ‘How to Woo Her?’

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

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, “...

Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Holly Ann Miller of Kerike...

TOM MAHER: The Weight of Words

A fly bookmarked pages six and seven. The last reader, inattentive or overawed, flattened it into a full stop. Maybe, having cut a life short, they couldn’t read again. Or perhaps...

“Constellation,” by Andrea Bajani

There was something absurd and distressing in that prelude to the domestic drama.

Americana Stories – Dean Owens “The Motel And The Highway”

In March, we put out a request for short fiction written around the subject of americana. The first to answer our call was one of our favourite singer/songwriters, Dean Owens. He a...

Short Story: Postage

A memory of Africa in the 60’s....

CORRINA MALEK: A Thousand Cuts

This last cut was so small, such a minor infraction, that alone it might have gone unnoticed. You were in a foreign city and he crossed the street quickly, not picking up your hand...

Laws of Conservation.

A fictional short story by Jen Shoop. The post Laws of Conservation. appeared first on Magpie by Jen Shoop.