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[Reading Room] Natural Light by Kathleen Alcott
This story was featured in The Best American Short Stories 2019, edited by Anthony Doerr This story was dense and literary with a slow-build to a quiet conclusion. It was not to my usual taste at all....
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[Reading Room] The Great Interruption by Wendell Berry
This story was featured in The Best American Short Stories 2019, edited by Anthony Doerr This story’s full title is The Great Interruption: The Story of A Famous Story of Old Port William and How It...
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[Reading Room] No More Than A Bubble by Jamel Brinkley
This story was featured in The Best American Short Stories 2019, edited by Anthony Doerr The Reading Room is a series of posts where I review short stories with a writers’ eye. The opening “It was...
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[Reading Room] The Third Tower by Deborah Eisenberg
This story was featured in The Best American Short Stories 2019, edited by Anthony Doerr The Opening ThereseJulia found it in a pile of old stuff. She didn’t want it so she said she would give it to...
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Short Stories I’ve Enjoyed in January 2020
I’m planning to read a story for every day of this year. In this new series, I share my favorite short stories from the month. I hope it’ll help you find some new inspiration, some new authors to...
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20 Short Stories That Will Make You A Better Writer
Chosen by members of the StoryADay Superstars community Perhaps you want to write short stories because novels seem overwhelming. Perhaps you’ve been told that you ought to start with short stories....
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[Reading Room] How The Trick Is Done by A. C. Wise
Photo by Sheri Hooley on Unsplash I liked this a lot. It managed to be about magic and death and unrequited love and #metoo and revenge and yet have a lightness and beauty that I often find missing in...
View Article[Reading Room] Cosmogramma by Courttia Newland
This collection is a great example of what modern speculative fiction can be: fascinating, compelling, peopled by sympathetic (and not-so sympathetic) characters; surprising and familiar, inspiring,...
View Article[Reading Room] The Locked Pod by Malka Older
The Reading Room is a personal log of stories I’ve enjoyed, read through the eyes of a writer. Find more This story plays really nicely into the idea of the Locked Room Mystery, only it’s an escape pod...
View Article3 Short Stories To Read Before May Begins
As we warm up for StoryADay May 2023, it’s always useful to read great examples of the kind of short fiction we might end up writing during May. Here are three great (and a little weird) stories I’ve...
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