Writing Down the Shadows: Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror
We get to devour our horror from the top of the head down to the tips of the toes.
...moreWe get to devour our horror from the top of the head down to the tips of the toes.
...moreIt was strange what the nudity did to us—what the nakedness undid.
...moreTara Isabel Zambrano discusses DEATH, DESIRE, AND OTHER DESTINATIONS.
...moreRebecca McClanahan discusses her new memoir-in-essays, IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY.
...moreTara Campbell discusses her new book, POLITICAL AF: A RAGE COLLECTION.
...moreA permanent job doesn’t need her, and neither do her boyfriends.
...moreLeesa Cross-Smith discusses her new story collection, SO WE CAN GLOW.
...moreMy favorite was usually the smallest, the most alive.
...moreCould scars be daughters? The hands don’t understand why I am asking this.
...more“I hope it will mean as much to readers as it does to me.”
...morePeg Alford Pursell discusses her new story collection, A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST.
...moreThe lasso was a gaping mouth that opened wide enough, we hoped, to swallow the cloud.
...moreImagine a man looking at the artist looking at the art at the party.
...moreWill you join us? When you are ready, lie down to rest.
...moreThe only way to guarantee a secret is for the only person to know about it be you.
...moreIn the first story of this collection, a girl learns the shocking truth that the world is made of atoms, that “when you get right down to it, it’s all just studs and holes.”
...moreRion Amilcar Scott discusses his story collection Insurrections, father relationships, hip-hop, knowing when to abandon a project, and choosing not to workshop certain stories.
...moreVi Khi Nao on her new novel Fish in Exile, why women shouldn’t apologize (even when they’re wrong), moving between genres, and why humor is vital in a novel full of darkness and grief.
...moreIn reading short story collections I always gravitated towards the shortest story, curious to find the idea expressed in the shortest amount of time. Over at the jmww blog, Jen Michalski talks to Amelia Gray about short fiction, flash fiction, and fables.
...moreAt WhiskeyPaper, Linda Niehoff writes briefly and beautifully about fire and magic, hinting at post-apocalyptic worlds with lines like, “We’d spent long evenings sewing together old bedsheets and nightgowns, the last pillowcase.” “Elsewhere” brings to mind Ray Bradbury and autumn nights, and is best read in one sitting. It comes with a suggested song—Iron & […]
...moreIf you were to hear a story with its own soundtrack, it’s going to affect how you feel and interact with that story, even if you’re not directly paying attention to the music, and vice versa. I also believe that language is the shortened version of music. They’re just different methods of communication. Over at […]
...moreIn a column for SmokeLong’s “Why Flash Fiction?” series, author Anne Weisgerber compares writing flash fiction to painting: I realized I could craft flash miniatures that added up to something bigger if I intended them to, like dabs in a Seurat painting. In this way, my reader at novel distance will see the rose window, […]
...moreStuart Dybek discusses the forthcoming The Best Small Fictions 2016, the invisibility of anecdote, and why the art of transition is the art of the short story.
...moreThe child wanted to name the rabbit Actually, and could not be dissuaded from this. For its final Flash Friday column, curated by Tin House, the Guardian shares three new excerpts from Joy Williams’s most recent collection, 99 Stories of God.
...moreI realized that I’m interested in how people change when something terrible happens to someone else.
...moreIn an interview with Flash Frontier, Tara Laskowski, senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, talks about her new short story collection Bystanders, the line between fiction and reality, the present tense, and the appeal of flash fiction: I don’t often like to wrap things up neatly. I think that’s why I’m drawn to flash fiction, because you can […]
...moreLate the next night a noise roused me from my sleep—wailing and cursing and then banging, more banging than ever, both fists full-force against the plaster. Filtered through the sleep haze, I couldn’t make sense of the commotion. Rion Amilcar Scott has a new short story out, “Night of the Living,” part of Entropy magazine’s “Of […]
...moreJane Ciabattari, Vice President/Online of the National Book Critics Circle, and Grant Faulkner, NaNoWriMo director and 100 Word Story co-founder, talk flash fiction.
...moreVery cool, artsy things are happening in Austin. Together with the literary journal NANO Fiction, Austin-based composer Russell Podgorsek and collaborators have created music to accompany the journal’s fall issue.
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