Natalya by Puloma Ghosh Read it here in about 10 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… I love that this short story takes the form of a medical examiner report, with subheadings throughout. I don’t know what a real medical examiner report would look like, but the subheadings here make sense in the orderContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
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A short story I recently read
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”
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 read
She Sheds Her Skin, by Raven Jakubowski Read it here in about 15 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… This is an unusual love-horror story, about an incompatible couple who’ve been desperately trying to make it work, now finally facing up to the fact that their love is, and always has been, doomed. IContinue 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 wrote
The Wolf’s Daughter, by Mina Ma My short story will be performed at the next Liars’ League event, which is on the theme Women and Girls. Event details here.
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”
My top 10 of 2022
I’ve been busy with work and life in 2022, so haven’t had time to update my blog, but I have still been reading! Here are some of my favourites from my 2022 reading: Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky What I love about this poetry collection, apart from the language, is the way it plays withContinue reading “My top 10 of 2022”
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