Short Stories
Gorillaz Wrote Us a Bunch of Scary Stories for Halloween
"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."
We Gave Limmy Some Scenarios and He Improvised Short Stories on the Spot
Ed Sheeran gets decked, a man is jailed over a Greggs fiasco and a couple confront some awkward truths about their sex life.
'Virgin and Other Stories' Is a Brilliant Book About Sex and God in the South
We caught up with debut author April Ayers Lawson to talk about her beautifully disturbing new collection of stories.
'Beneath the National Palace of Culture': Fiction by Garth Greenwell
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.
Helen Oyeyemi's Major Keys
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."
Read a Story from Mona Awad's '13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl'
"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.
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John McManus Wrote the Best Short Story About a Thomas Jefferson Clone You’ll Read This Year
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.
'Advice for the Haunted': Fiction by Rachel Swearingen
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.
Joy Williams Captures the Absurdity of America in Her Stories
The dark, funny-sad stories in her new collection ;The Visiting Privilege' are both a warning and an offering to a country in distress.
Read These Four Very Short Stories by Osama Alomar
The Syrian-American writer has a sly, economical yet incisive way of upending conventions and exposing hypocrisy and injustice.
Read a Story from Lucia Berlin's 'A Manual for Cleaning Women'
A story from the new collection by the great but not widely appreciated writer.
Read This Story by Clarice Lispector: 'Report on the Thing'
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.
