Story A Day: Wrapping Up May
A couple of reading/writing/reviewing deadlines sidelined my ability to keep up with the blog posts here on my Story A […]
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Story A Day: “Dead on Her Feet” by Cornell Woolrich
Another story from the Cornell Woolrich collection I started yesterday—this one more of a straight whodunit, but with some grisly
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Story A Day: “The Night Reveals” by Cornell Woolrich
Just got in the mail the Centipede Press collection Speak to Me of Death: The Collected Short Fiction of Cornell
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Story A Day: “Hiding” by Frances Badgett
Flash fiction obviously works on the less is more principle—relying on being suggestive rather than exhaustive in its descriptions of
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Story A Day: “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”
In addition to reading the complete stories of Stanley Ellin, Tara and I have also been working out way—aloud—through the
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Story A Day: “Jhonathan and the Witchs” by Stephen King
Writer and editor Paul Mandelbaum gathered the childhood writings of 22 distinguished authors—including Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, Michael Crichton, Allan
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Story A Day: “Black” by Paul Cain
I picked up the Centipede Press edition of Paul Cain’s works, The Complete Slayers, after reading Michael Dirda’s review in
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Story A Day: “Molly’s Bed” by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Sandra Seamans’ “My Little Corner” is one of my favorite blogs—an invaluable resource for anyone interested in writing short stories
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Story A Day: “The Last Bottle in the World” by Stanley Ellin
Another Stanley Ellin story, one that originally appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine in 1968 and was a finalist for
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Story A Day: “Five Stories From Flaubert” by Lydia Davis
Today, I happened upon “Five Stories From Flaubert” by Lydia Davis, in the November 2010 issue of Harper’s. The very brief stories
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Story A Day (x 4): The Ketchup Edition
Back when I was in elementary school in Richlands, NC, our teacher would regularly have a “Catch-Up” Day. I was
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Story A Day: “Nap Time” by Tom Franklin
Originally published in The Georgia Review and anthologized in both New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2005 and New Sudden