Some of my favorite examples have ... Science fiction and fantasy are almost always most innovative when they’re at their briefest. Imaginative short stories have the freedom to make a huge ...

"Mantis," for example, is about the love life of the insect that gives the story its title ... emotionally resonant short fiction. The fabulist takes and great writing make Green Frog a great ...

Sometimes you’re in the mood for a slice of science fiction but you haven’t got the time to embark on a Red Mars or a Dune. All hail, then, the sci-fi short story, bringing you a slice of the ...

Mary O’Donnell, author of Walking Ghosts, on the short story: how I approach it, and why emotional honesty matters . . .

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New York — Essays and early short stories by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee will be published this fall. "The Land of Sweet Forever" compiles short fiction Lee wrote in the ...

Sondra Silverston is a native New Yorker who has lived in Israel since 1970. She has trans­lat­ed works of Etgar Keret, ...

EMILY BRIGHT: Give me an example ... fiction comes in. ASHLEY SHELBY: Exactly. CATHY WURZER: That was MPR's Emily Bright speaking with St. Paul author Ashley Shelby about her new short story ...

The author says the piece is “authentically Caribbean” – essentially “a story about family [and] its role in creating spaces ...

Essays and early short stories by To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee will be published this fall. The Land of Sweet Forever compiles short fiction Lee wrote in the years before the 1960 ...