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Henry Award for Best Short Fiction ... he was a poor English teacher struggling to pay the bills and feed his three kids. King's early stories are loaded with working class stiffs, because ...

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Best known as ... staunchly women-centred stories are frighteningly real, but given a surreal slant that makes them all the more memorable. The 30 tales range from short feminist takes on the ...

Here’s our selection of the best short stories from the Polish master of horror and weird ... The cover of Muzeum dusz czyścowych The majority of the stories above are available in English translation ...

Unmissable super short stories by brilliant women. Here is Stylist’s guide to the flash fiction female writers you need to read (plus you could probably do it all in the next hour…).

The best way to understand what is required in short story writing is to read short stories by different authors. There are many good anthologies of short stories available in libraries or bookshops.

Brand new stories, from today’s best writers written exclusively for Radio 4 – the home of the Short Story Radio 4 is the world’s leading commissioner of new short stories. Expect excellent ...

Anime is replete with great romantic stories, but it is not always easy to tell which is the best. For those who are new to anime, a list of the very best can be helpful in making a choice about ...