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Rumpus Original Fiction: Out on the Coast

  • David Rice
  • February 27, 2015
When he was five, six, seven, and eight, Max spent most of the summer thinking about the whale, sitting in his room with the shades drawn remembering the first visit and looking forward to the second, just before the new school year.
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New Murakami Short Story

  • Guia Cortassa
  • February 17, 2015
“Kino,” a new short story by Haruki Murakami, is available to read without the paywall over at the New Yorker.
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What’s in a Name

  • Bryan Washington
  • January 21, 2015
Over at Matter, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gives us a new piece of short fiction: My father’s first child was a girl. He said she was a loud squalling baby who grasped…
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Calling Freddy

  • Bryan Washington
  • January 14, 2015
Michael Chabon has a short story over on Tablet; in it, he negotiates the acquaintance of a boy and his crippled neighbor: There was no menace or queerness in his…
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Weary

  • Guia Cortassa
  • January 13, 2015
It would not be so bad to drown, would it? There is the seal, bloated and rotten. And her father and mother in their caskets. And herself, what would she…
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Attention Spans Fall, Short Fiction Rises

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 23, 2014
That is not to say that normal books will decline. Of course they won’t. There will always be a place for big, satisfying stories to burrow through. But it seems…
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The Greatest Short Story of All-Time

  • Guia Cortassa
  • July 15, 2014
“Kipling,” says a psychiatrist friend of mine, “was always pretending to be something other than he actually was—which was a 10-year-old boy.” His work, the best of it, has a…
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The Very Short Story

  • Alex Norcia
  • June 27, 2014
In the Atlantic, Lydia Davis deconstructs two drafts of an early short story, showing how even something as minimal as a sentence or a paragraph can have a narrative arc.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Jill Schepmann
  • May 23, 2014
May is Short Story Month! In honor of StoryADay’s second annual celebration, Flavorwire writers offered their recommendations of five stories worth a read, from Calvino to O’Connor. On Monday, Gawker…
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Paying Attention to the Short Story

  • Alex Norcia
  • May 22, 2014
The Telegraph’s Sam Baker says that the short story is experiencing a resurgence, both in the United States and Great Britain, thanks to technology. Suddenly, after years out in the…
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Insert Short Story Here

  • Casey Dayan
  • April 25, 2014
[Beginning in media res in mother’s house.] [Sufficiently dramatic exposition with an obvious, planted echo to the story’s climax.] Story in need of kindling? Take a gander at this short…
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Mark Twain Still Popular…In China!

  • Ashley Perez
  • January 14, 2014
Did you know that Mark Twain is one of the best known foreign writers in China? Neither did we. There is a well earned, and unabashed image of Mark Twain…
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