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Five Very Short Stories by Diane Williams
Diane Williams is the author of seven story collections, most recently Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty. Read the five pieces of micro-fiction she wrote for VICE's latest fiction issue.
Three Love Stories
"Have you done this before?" says the man in the hotel room. Before she can speak, taking his answer from her face, he says, "How many times?"
The Air Marshal
I was shopping. I had decided it was stupid not to drink, and I drank when I shopped.
'Soft Tagets,' by Christopher Bollen
Stefan didn't pay his half of the rent on time. It was like a game we played, or that he played and I was forced to go along with on the defensive.
Two Stories from ‘Mirages of the Mind’
You too must really think that I'm strange. If, through some miracle, I stop talking about prostitutes, then I start talking about good-looking young boys! Sir, what can I do? I can only tell the stories that these sinful eyes have seen.
A Short Story About Costumes, Sex, and Lying to Businessmen
'The Surrogate,' by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Love Trip
When I was 19, I got a letter from Klaus Wouters. He worked as a handyman and music teacher at Silver Springs, a school for troubled kids in the San Gabriel Mountains. He knew (or guessed) I was still in Southern California.