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“Every Forest, Every Film”

Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris

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“I Think I’m Going to Try Trying”

“So Long to the Rearview”

“My Success”

“The Dragon Flute”

Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2024 Insider Prize

Read the 1962 Short Story That Inspired This Year’s Met Gala Theme

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“The Blackhills”

“Ira & the Whale”

“Happy Is a Doing Word”

On the Outsize Power of the Short Story (AKA the Genre of “High Genius”)

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

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

“Insert Coin”

Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

“The Confessions of a Very Old Man”

Book of Extraordinary Tragedies

“The Gap”

Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House” (1921)

Stories from the Attic

“Resident Aliens”

The Last Island

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