The Best Short Story I Read This Month Archive
The Best Short Story I Read This Month: “The Cock in Cadwalader Heights” by Ariel Delgado Dixon
In the short story “The Cock in the Cadwalader Heights” from the Masters Review, Ariel Delgado Dixon uses subtle details throughout the narrative to show how eleven-year-old Madín is starting to view the world differently.
The Best Short Story I Read This Month: “The Kindest” by Sonya Larson
Returning from the brink of death with a new lease on life: it’s a common trope in fiction and nonfiction alike. These stories are easy for the reader to believe, as one hopes that coming so close to the dark unknown would carry with it some sort of positive
The Best Short Story I Read This Month: “Missing Things” by Edwin Madu
Every word carries with it a connotative meaning, a definition that stretches beyond what can be found in the dictionary. Edwin Madu uses this notion to his advantage in his short story “Missing Things” published by Okey-Panky in July of this year.