• Short Stories

    Daily Fiction

    “The Dragon Flute”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 14, 2025
    Daily Fiction

    “Familiars”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 13, 2025
    Future Fables

    Listen to a Future Fable from Ellen van Neerven: “The Eagle’s Daughters”

    By Future Fables  October 6, 2023
    Future Fables

    Listen to a Future Fable from George Walker: “The Seasonal Scurry”

    By Future Fables  October 5, 2023
    Future Fables

    Listen to a Future Fable from Stephen Graham Jones: “The Three Golden Nails”

    By Future Fables  September 29, 2023
    Future Fables

    Listen to a Future Fable from Regina Kanyu Wang: “A Day of Snaky”

    By Future Fables  September 27, 2023
    Future Fables

    Listen to a Future Fable from Caleb Azumah Nelson: “Forever We Shall”

    By Future Fables  September 25, 2023
    Short Stories

    “The Cat Thief” by Son Bo-mi, Translated by Janet Hong

    By Son Bo-mi and Janet Hong  November 8, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    H. B. Marriott-Watson, “Devil of the Marsh” (1893)

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 26, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Insert Coin”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 14, 2022
    Future Fables

    Listen to a Future Fable From Amelia Abraham: “The Rat & The Hamster”

    By Future Fables  October 4, 2022
    Future Fables

    Introducing Future Fables, Bedtime Stories for Adults

    By Future Fables  October 3, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “The Confessions of a Very Old Man”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 1, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    The Deer

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 15, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “The Gap”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 11, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Diary of a Void

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 10, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House” (1921)

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 29, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Stories from the Attic

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 18, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Resident Aliens”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 12, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    The Last Island

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 1, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “The Wife”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 30, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 28, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    The Second Substance

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 27, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Forty-Two”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 14, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Is This You?”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 8, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Original Work”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 2, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Maheov”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 27, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Baptism”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 18, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Rivers of the Unspoilt World

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 16, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Allegory: A Parable”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 13, 2022
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