Category: Short Stories

Flash fiction is quickly becoming one of my favorite formats! The ability of these authors to make a lasting impact on the reader in…

The Predatory Animal Ball is Jennifer Fliss’s debut collection of flash fiction (extremely short stories) about people left in the wake of predators. These…

Wendy J. Fox’s collection of interconnected short stories, What If We Were Somewhere Else, follows the employees of a nondescript office through their relationships,…

Dominican-American author Brenda Peynado’s short story collection, The Rock Eaters, is perfect for readers who enjoy magical realism, fabulism, speculative fiction, and social commentary….

If you’re in the mood for a hard sci-fi short story collection, To Hold Up the Sky by Cixin Liu (translated by Joel Martinsen,…

The Iowa Short Fiction Award consistently gives us wonderful short story collections like Sari Rosenblatt’s Father Guards the Sheep. These are strong, character-driven stories…

I love people stories, I love fabulist fiction, and Chuck Augello’s collection The Inexplicable Grey Space We Call Love is an interesting mix of…

There are 11 short stories in Sara Rauch’s collection What Shines From It, and overall this was a solid “it was good, I liked…

Jayne Martin’s Tender Cuts is one of my first encounters with flash fiction. We’re talking very short stories: just a page, usually; sometimes only…