"Short Story" Blogs & Blog Posts

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It is a tale of a poet, the devil, and the cat who rules them all. Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep is a fantastic short story that'll distract you for all of its 26 pages or their e-equivalent. I would hate to give away any of the story, becau...

“It started with a cough. I don’t know where it came from but it was annoying, loud and croaky. I could control it at first, take a drink of water, suck on a throat lozenge, but I could feel it start to take hold in my lungs. It felt like...

When I was at the Clarion Writer's Workshop, my cohort encouraged me to stop writing short stories that were clever, and try writing something more personal. So naturally, I wrote a story about a robot who dies by suicide in hopes of feeling more ali...

By now, you've probably seen the 2009 McSweeney's classic, "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers" by Colin Nissan: I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on m...

The American Bystander is a superb humor magazine now in its 15th issue (buy a copy here or subscribe via Patreon). The latest issue has a story by Jennifer Finney Boylan, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the author of 16 book...

I wrote An Baile na mBan: a story of mothers, monsters, and war a few years ago for an anthology called Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History. Originally published by Crossed Genres Publishing, the anthology focused on sci-fi/...