Short Fiction Daily

The weird thing about this blog is that it has no regular readers. Something I have come to realize recently is that if you have a blog, re...

One of the most important questions I ask myself as a writer is "who are my writers?" In order to write your own fiction it is ...

Margins consists of dialogue between two men named Carl and Edward. This structure gives the story a quick and snappy pace. Each line of di...

The title of this story refers to a character who Fuckhead, the narrator, visits to get some opium. Fuckhead learns that Dundun has shot an...

As someone who reads a lot of short stories, I often think about story structure and whether or not it is an important element of effective...

Summary The story begins with the narrator waking up in a delirious state. The narrator has done a lot of drugs with a salesman, a Cher...

In the stories I have read, Jess Walter tends to focus on blue-collar people or worse. "Thief" is no different. The story is abou...