Short Fiction Daily

  The first strange thing about Gina Berriault’s The Stone Boy is how quickly the worst thing happens. Nine-year-old Arnold gets up early o...

  There are stories where something impossible happens and the entire plot becomes an attempt to explain it. Kevin Brockmeier's The Ceil...

Some stories make setting feel important. Breece D’J Pancake’s “Trilobites” does something stranger. The setting seems to remember things. T...

William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is one of the most widely anthologized short stories in American literature. It's of...

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 Symb...

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...