Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Good Humor Man
“Before last night, the only cops who wore helmets rode motorcycles.” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Good Humor Man” by Roy Lowenstein.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Amsterdam
“But what to do with wild desire, which careens from bloom to bloom?” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Amsterdam” by Andrew Bertaina.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, On Writing
Read our Five Best Small Fictions nominees!
Picture credit: Jason Leung
By turns surreal, familiar, inventive and astonishingly written – immerse yourself in these five stories that we are delighted to nominate for Best Small ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, On Writing
READ OUR SIX PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES!
Dive into these spellbinding stories from our writers who have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize!
Editor's Pick, Fiction, StorySunday
Fox in the Snow
“I feel like a character in a fantasy novel living in some snowy village. Trading our goods, listening to stories. .” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Fox in the Snow” by ...
Black Crescent
“Estelle saw the birthmark on the bride’s left shoulder.” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Black Crescent” by Townsend Walker.
A Solarium
“He was a famous musician, about to travel. I’d be taking care of his house.” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “A Solarium”, by Rebecca Pyle.
Mink Coat
Today’s Story Sunday USA takes us to 1940s Seattle, for a tale of two sisters and resiliency.
The Smell of Penance
In search of witch doctors in today’s Story Sunday USA, a man tries to outrun his past.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
The Dark Room
Lucy knows all these things about him, and more. She keeps them filed away in a special part of her brain, the part of her brain that deals with difficult ...
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Snare
He doubts if moving in with her might have felt too natural a course to take. Natural enough for him to forget when. And he doubts he’s the only guy ...
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The Monk Seal
Without money or connections, what value did his friendship have? But the analysis changed if he’d transgress on Conor’s behalf. His transgressions would make him complicit.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Cold Comfort
Narratives. It was all about narratives.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Slumming It
There are moments, situations, that define relationships, when there is a rightness between two people – the way that a society host and hostess, cold-shouldering each other for months, would ...
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Between the Ground and Sky
Toward the end, Ben had taken to carrying a photo of himself in his wallet. On the surface, he knew it seemed an act of extreme and unfounded vanity but, ...
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Dead and Gone
Back inside the tavern, the dining room had grown dark and empty except for a handful of guests at the far end of the bar where a muted green light ...
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Urgent
“There aren’t any seats left and standing people have already taken up a lot of the wall space. I stand in front of a table pushed against the corner.”
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Notes of Improvement on Parisian Trains
“Empty, she wrote, even though it wasn’t an improvement, because sometimes she just wrote what she saw.”
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Mother Goes to Italy
She ran from this loneliness all the way to Italy, hoping it wouldn’t find her there.
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RCKT MAN
In 15 minutes a dead man would walk through the door and have a seat at the booth.