“The Dragon Flute”

“The Dragon Flute”

Yukio Mishima (trans. Sam Bett)

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Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction’</em>s 2024 Insider Prize

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

Selected by Peter Orner

By Literary Hub | September 30, 2024

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

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

J.G. Ballard’s “The Garden of Time”

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All hail

All hail "ambassador of gibberish" Michael Rosen, who won the PEN Pinter prize.

By Janet Manley | June 28, 2023

“The Blackhills”

“The Blackhills”

Eamon McGuinness

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 24, 2023

“Ira & the Whale”

“Ira & the Whale”

Rachel B. Glaser

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

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By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 26, 2022

“Insert Coin”

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Emrys Donaldson

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 14, 2022

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

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Memoir by Michael John Wiese; Fiction by David Antares

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“The Confessions of a Very Old Man”

“The Confessions of a Very Old Man”

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Joe Meno

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 31, 2022

“The Gap”

“The Gap”

Maya abu al-Hayat (trans by Yasmine Seale)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 11, 2022

Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House” (1921)

Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House” (1921)

From the Collection Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural, Edited By Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton

By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 29, 2022

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