Necessary Fiction
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A Story to Use and Reuse
At Necessary Fiction, Anna Rowser’s story “Breaking Down” effectively uses the subject of recycling as a metaphor to subtly explore what the narrator wants, needs, uses, reuses, and casts off both physically and emotionally. It’s fiction that makes you rethink…
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This Week in Short Fiction
Leesa Cross-Smith’s debut story collection, Every Kiss a War, dropped last week from Mojave River Press. Written in the second person, her incantatory response reads like a spiritual to-do list, almost a story in itself. Try a sip: Drink red wine, cold.…
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Here Are Some Stories Seth Likes
Here are links to stories I read this week that I liked and I hope you’ll like too. “It’s not that we wouldn’t be able to lay our hands on bodily fluids via some other avenue, says Stephen, it’s just…
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Here’s Some Stories I Like
As always, here’s some very short stories that’ll only take you a few moments to read but that made me feel something and hopefully will do the same for you. “The messages most people send are very simple.” — At…