Short Fiction Daily

 Every so often I run into a story that feels less like a piece of fiction and more like a magic trick. Vladimir Nabokov's Signs and Sym...

Anton Chekhov's The Lady with the Dog is one of those stories that gets assigned in literature classes so often that it's easy to f...

The first time I read Ben Marcus, I kept waiting for the moment when everything would suddenly click into place. Surely there would be a rev...

What Happens in the Story Donald Barthelme’s “The School” is one of those stories that almost sounds ridiculous when you try to explain it ...

In The Pedestrian , nothing really happens. And somehow, that’s what makes it feel so strange. So what actually happens in the story? The st...

In Lamb to the Slaughter , something violent happens pretty early on. But it doesn’t really feel violent. And that’s kind of the point. So w...

Plot Summary “Here and There” follows a couple whose relationship weakens slowly, almost imperceptibly. Wallace moves between the male narr...