The Page-Turners: Must-Read Short Story Collections: Here are some of the best short story collections that consistently captivate readers with their compelling narratives, masterful prose ...

Each proves, too, how even brief encounters with a fictional world can linger well after we turn the page. In this idiosyncratic collection of Japanese short stories, “quite old works and very ...

And it must be a short story rather than a novella. With King this is a slippery distinction, so for our purposes each story chosen is under 100 pages in length. The stories are unranked ...

EXCLUSIVE: A 39-page haunted house short story by first-time writer Victor Sweetser has created a frenzy, with five bids in for movie rights and more coming including some of the big names in the ...

Published in the New Yorker in 2010 and collected in Saunders’ “Tenth of December” in 2013, the short story puts me in mind of art-house films by miserabilists like Gaspar Noé and Lars von ...

All hail, then, the sci-fi short story ... and tell us what we’ve missed on our Facebook page. We have provided links where these stories have been made available to read online.

"Paper Menagerie" is a short story about a bi-racial boy named Jack ... is so effective is because it's so sparse. In just a few pages, Liu explores immigration, identity, and culture, with ...

Suzette Mayr says: "The short stories I remember the most are the ones ... Suzette Mayr Kevin Chong says: "First off, just get something on the page. You're not going to be Alice Munro in your ...