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Tag Archives: short story
The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “The Other Kind of Magic” by Juliet Escoria
Have I written about longing here yet? (I’m sure I have.) Every story is supposed to be stuffed to the gills with an aching desire, something pulling a character through the narrative whether they want it to or not. In … Continue reading
The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Letters Between Tortoise and Hare” by Brandi Wells
I’ve been in a bit of a slump lately, chaffing against my nine to five office job, weary of the routine and cadence of every week and weekend. It’s spring in New York, which doesn’t help, since all anyone wants … Continue reading
The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “The Lost Caves of St. Louis” by Anne Valente
I’m not sure about anyone else, but I can remember feeling stuck as a kid. I was an impatient child (and now I’m an impatient adult). A summer then felt like an entire year. A two-hour trip to the store … Continue reading
The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Our Country” by Jill Schepmann
You know you’re reading something lovely when you come across a line in a story that makes you stop reading, get out a pen, and draw a dark line across the page. (And you know it’s exceptional if you even … Continue reading
The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Mort Naturelle” by Ricardo Nuila
For most of us, our bodies can be mysteries, but in Ricardo Nuila’s story “Mort Naturelle,” we find them painfully explained. Here’s what happens to a spleen when a parachute doesn’t deploy; here’s how a jaw disappears when it’s been … Continue reading
The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Wake Turbulence” by Laurie Ann Cedilnik
As a recent transplant to New York from Arizona, I’ve been a little obsessed with place lately—about what the landscapes of home show us when we live inside them versus when we’re removed, what happens when we start seeing our … Continue reading
The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “My Parasite” by Gina Frangello
The thing about a well-developed setting is that in many ways it’s invisible: it’s hidden in a sentence that reveals a character’s flaw, it sits quietly beside an emotional truth, it’s the catalyst for a surprising behavior. Setting grounds us … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, Gina Frangello, My Parasite, reading, reviews, short story, Sunday Rumpus Fiction, The Rumpus
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The Shelter of Neighbours
The Shelter of Neighbours Eilis Ni Dhuibhne Blackstaff Press, September 2012 288 pages $27.95 One page into Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s The Shelter of Neighbours I laughed out loud. And then, two stories later, with a carload of train passengers glancing … Continue reading
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Tagged Chekov, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, fiction, Ireland, short story, Sweden
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Thomas Lee
Thomas Lee’s story, “The Gospel of Blackbird,” appears in Winter 2011-12 issue, guest edited by Alice Hoffman. Lee was the 2011 Emerging Writers Contest winner. “The Gospel of Blackbird” opens with these lines: As John hurried to the resident locker … Continue reading
Rachel Kadish
Rachel Kadish’s short story, “The Governess and the Tree,” appears in our Winter 2011-12 issue, guest edited by Alice Hoffman. “The Governess and the Tree” begins with these lines: Once, in the woods, a tree. Once in the woods there … Continue reading
