From Ray Bradbury to Lucia Berlin to Denis Johnson, these short story collections have continued to get even better with time ...

This is one of a series of short stories depicting the Royal Opera House on the same night from the perspective of three ...

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Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love has long been regarded as a modern literary classic. Forty-five ...

We present a story from the RTÉ Short Story Competition shortlist 2026 — read Like Clean Windows Kill The Birds, by John ...

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Yes, I know the drugstore Santas have begun their yearly infestation, but, believe it or not, it's still autumn. We have a few precious weeks to get all our fall reading in before we are eaten by the ...

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of short stories: the quiet, profound, slice-of-life short stories that evoke a sense of bittersweet longing and muted despair... and the short stories that get ...

We present another story from the RTÉ Short Story Competition shortlist 2026 — read Cottage Pie by Alison Jameson below, and ...

I have always loved everything that goes bump in the night. Nothing makes me happier than stuff that's going to scare me so badly that I can't go to sleep, like great ghost stories. While a lot of ...

The story of the writer who called himself O. Henry could almost be an O. Henry story. The writer—his real name was William Sidney Porter—had a secret, and he spent most of his adult life trying to ...