Here’s Some Stories I Like

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October 10, 2010

For your Sunday evening perusal, here’s some very short and very awesome short shorts I liked. I hope you like them too.

“That time your mother crashed the car into the Dairy Queen she had dropped her cigarette and was reaching around on the floor and hit the gas instead of the brake and the car went into the window.” — At Smokelong Quarterly, “Dairy Queen” by Jennifer Pashley.

“It is common for a husband to outlive his falcon, but there are of course cases in which the falcon outlives the husband, particularly when the husband turns to falconry later in life.” At wigleaf, “Husbands and Animal Husbandry” by Dan Piepenbring.

“Chicken bone, chicken bone hone. Hone. Home, home moan, chicken bone. Chick chick, chicky boo. Chuck chuck under chuck.” At Thieves Jargon, “Various Value Added Projects, Various By-Products” by Gretel My.

“He’d wanted to look like a superhero that first day of Eid-al-Fitr. His best red T-shirt with a picture of Spiderman and his cleanest jeans.” At Camera Obscura, “Brother Heart” by Elaine Chiew.

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Seth Fischer

Seth Fischerâ€™s writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize by several publications, including Guernica. He was the founding Sunday editor at The Rumpus and is the current nonfiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. He is a Dornsife PhD Fellow at USC and been awarded fellowships and residencies by Ucross, Lambda Literary, Jentel, Ragdale, and elsewhere, and he teaches at the UCLA-Extension Writerâ€™s Program and Antioch University, where he received his MFA.

One response

Tania Hershman

October 17, 2010

This is wonderful – and very appropriate for #StorySunday, which I recently started on Twitter, asking people to link to short stories not written by them. I get wonderful recommendations of new things to read every week – come join!