"Short Stories" Blogs & Blog Posts

I remember how excited I was to get Mirrorshades when it came out in 1986. It's an anthology of short science fiction stories, edited by Bruce Sterling. Authors include For lack of a better word, the stories can be considered "cyberpunk." —...

Sir Terry Pratchett died in 2015, but his legacy grows even now: a collection of short stories [Amazon] published pseudonymously by him in the 70s and 80s is intriguing fans and critics. There was, he insisted, nothing more. Pratchett gave instru...

Cat Person was a short story by author Kristen Roupenian that went weirdly viral upon its initial publication in The New Yorker in December 2017. I say "weirdly" not as a pejorative — it's a great story — but simply because short fiction typicall...

There's been a lot of (perfectly valid!) debate lately about AI-generated artworks. But I have to oddly commend the new Infinite Odyssey venture for going all the way with it: a monthly full-length sci-fi prose and comic book magazine, created entire...

I've always meant to pick up one of the annual mystery and suspense year end compilations. This year I finally did! (And now I know what I've been missing.) This is actually the 26th entry in the Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022 yearly collect...

I'm a big fan of C.J. Tudor's writing. She's got a vivid (and darkly creative) imagination that has hooked me with every book she's written. I was thrilled to see that her latest, A Sliver of Darkness, is a collection of short stories. I like th...

The Great Wizard of Northampton has a new prose fiction book coming out very soon — next week, in fact. Here's the official blurb for Illuminations: Stories by Alan Moore: In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work...