Short Stories

"In Japan, we have weasel monsters with claws so sharp that you don't even know you've been cut until you realise bits are in the wrong place."

Ed Sheeran gets decked, a man is jailed over a Greggs fiasco and a couple confront some awkward truths about their sex life.

We caught up with debut author April Ayers Lawson to talk about her beautifully disturbing new collection of stories.

One of the hardest stories to write is a love story. It's difficult to render chemistry in writing, and it's particularly difficult to capture one-way obsessions, or unrequited love. This story does.

Broadly speaks with prolific author Helen Oyeyemi about her new short story collection, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. Despite publishing her seventh book, Oyeyemi insists she's "still very much learning on the job."

"The von Furstenberg and I" is a story about a woman's relationship with a tiny, expensive dress from Mona Awad's debut story collection.

We spoke to the author of "Fox Tooth Heart" about his long break from publication and why shame is the most powerful and revealing emotion.

In this new story from Rachel Swearingen, a young couple buys a Lincoln Park flat and lives among the deceased former owner's belongings... and spirit.

The dark, funny-sad stories in her new collection ;The Visiting Privilege' are both a warning and an offering to a country in distress.

The Syrian-American writer has a sly, economical yet incisive way of upending conventions and exposing hypocrisy and injustice.

A story from the new collection by the great but not widely appreciated writer.

A new translation of the legendary Brazilian writer's meditation on the nature of time, the universe, Sweden, Pelé, and one electronic alarm clock that is so many things.