Your smartphone’s notifications might already be clogged with junk, but what about a short story instead?
Serial Box, an iOS app for serving up serialized fiction on devices, announced in a blog post that it’s launching something called Microfiction …
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Author of the super-viral ‘Cat Person’ story talks about the IRL events that inspired it
It was the short story that many of us devoured with a fury that only accompanies a piece of writing that’s profoundly relatable. But, what is the true story that inspired Cat Person, the goose-bump-inducing short story that had many of us nodding ou…
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Short stories may not take as long as novels to put together, but that doesn’t make them any easier to perfect.
Crafting a short story that really sings off the page — one that stays with the reader after the book’s been slotted back on the shelf — is no easy feat.
There are plenty of people who have one hell of a talent for it, though.
From libraries and hospitals to pressed roses and foot fetishes, here are some short stories from female British writers you badly need to check out. Read more…
1. “When the Door Closed, It Was Dark”, by Alison Moore (published in The Best British Short Stories 2011)
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Short stories are underrated.
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MashReads Podcast: ‘Cat Person’ perfectly taps into the murky ambivalence of millennial dating
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It’s hard to read “Cat Person,” a short story by Kristen Roupenian, without thinking two words: Extreme same.
The story, first published in the The New Yorker in early December, details a flirtation and then an encounter between Margot, a 20-year-old college student, and Robert, a 34-year-old man whom she (and the reader) knows very little about.
Throughout “Cat Person,” Roupenian explores the murky ambivalence of modern dating, in which a chance encounter can lead to someone being both disinterested and also disinclined to let that other person go — to the point where, midway through the story, after she sleeps with Robert, Margot notes, “[I] thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marvelled at herself for a while, at the mystery of this person who’d just done this bizarre, inexplicable thing.” Read more…
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