The Quiet Boy, by Nick Antosca Read it here, in about 30 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… I love the use of metafiction: it’s a story with stories in it, and one of those stories sets off the action. The story in question, the grammatically inaccurate The Three Wolfs, written by student Lucas,Continue reading “A short story I recently read”
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A short story I recently read
There are Ghosts Here, by Dominique Dickey Read it here in about 15 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… I love the mysteriousness of this story – so much is not told to the reader, for example we are informed by the narrator that Leo ‘disappeared’, then ‘Across the city, Leo was dying’, thenContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
A short story I recently read
Every Ghost Story, by Natalia Theodoridou Read it here in about half an hour. Thinking about why I love it… I love the concept: something unknown has happened in the universe, and now most of us can see ghosts, but those ghosts all look like something out of 19th century spirit photography – white shrouds,Continue reading “A short story I recently read”
A short story I recently read
Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson Read it here in about 10 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… I love stories that are divided into sections, and in this particular story we have a division into two sections, although there’s no clear reason why that is (i.e. there are no section titles; theContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
A short story I recently re-read
The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson Read it here in less than 20 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… Halloween month is almost upon us, so what better than a bit of Shirley Jackson to get us in the mood for spooks and scares. I love this story because it’s shocking. The first time youContinue reading “A short story I recently re-read”
A short story I recently read
Paradise, by Hannah Lillith Assadi Read it here in about half an hour. Thinking about why I love it… I first read this story in 2020 (it was one of my ‘Top 10’ of that year), but have recently re-read it. I live in Egypt now, and teach students from this country as well asContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
How I wrote it
My short story ‘Wild Love‘ was published in Makarelle’s winter 2021/22 edition, which was on the theme Love is Love. I wrote this story during my MA in Creative Writing. How it came about was, I wanted to challenge myself to write something in the romance genre. I considered this to be a challenge becauseContinue reading “How I wrote it”
A short story I recently read
‘Anything Could Disappear’ by Danielle Evans Read it here in about 60 minutes. Thinking about why I liked it… The sparse but specific details build the story and characters. For example, in the first paragraph Vera’s twenty-four-hour bus journey is compressed into a mixture of impressions from the different stops on the journey: ‘From ChicagoContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
A short story for winter
‘Winter Break’ by Hilary Mantel Read it here in about 15 minutes. Thinking about time… Time is important in this story, for several reasons. Firstly, time is used as a structural device. The story is just under 2,000 words long, and spans the duration of a taxi ride from the airport to the couple’s hotel,Continue reading “A short story for winter”
A short story I recently read
‘Guts’ by Kimberly King Parsons Read it here in about 50 minutes. Thinking about juxtaposed characters… Our narrator, Sheila, is an imperfect woman, a flawed character. She struggles with her body, self-esteem, and life choices. She’s embarrassed, but can’t stop eating junk food, secretly drinks alcohol and smokes pot, and is insecure about her relationshipContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
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