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Tag Archives: Short Stories
My AI Tale
To say that I am ambivalent about the rush to use AI in the arts would be an understatement. In many instances it seems more like an automated plagiarism machine than cutting edge technology. However, I was game to give … Continue reading →
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Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, book illustration, Short Stories
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In The Stacks (Maisie’s Tune)
In the Stacks (Maisie’s Tune) by Robin Sloan is both a synthesizer with knobs you can fiddle with and a short story you can read. Here’s a sample, but you can read the entire story by the author of the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Robin Sloan, Short Stories, synthesizer
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Each year the Halloween season seems to engender new found interest in both popular and lesser known spooky stories. Those of us raised on classic ghost tales likely are familiar with the work of M.R. James, but younger generations may … Continue reading →
What then do we want words for?
“By the Numbers” by Hob Broun [1] THEY WORKED AT THE enclosed mall in King of Prussia. They wore plastic nametags, the corporate logo above a deep groove accommodating a Dymo label. Jenelle for the record store, Courtney for the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Heywood Hale Broun, Hob Broun, Portland, Short Stories
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The Library of Short Stories
The Library of Short Stories is a website which compiles and share sout-of-copyright fiction for anyone to peruse. The site collects all types of short stories across various genres – you have your classic Conan Doyle, Dickens, Chekov, Hemingway and … Continue reading →
The Drowned Giant
The Complete Short Stories of JG Ballard contains a treasure trove for fans of the English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist known for provocative works of fiction which explore the relationships between human psychology, technology, sex, and mass … Continue reading →
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Tagged Fiction, JG Ballard, Short Stories
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Personal Anthologies
For the last five years, the writer Jonathan Gibbs has curated a project called A Personal Anthology, where guest editors provide a dozen short story selections. Sometimes the anthologies are Greatest Hits, sometimes they’re personal favorites or central to the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, anthologies, Charles Willeford, Short Stories
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Library of Short Stories
I recently discovered The Library of Short Stories a website which compiles and shares out-of-copyright short fiction. The free site collects short stories across various genres. There’s classic Conan Doyle,Lovecraft, Dickens, Poe, and so much more. Here’s what the site … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Short Stories
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“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
It was announced last week that a previously unpublished book by Leonard Cohen—rejected by two publishers and then set aside—will be published this October by Grove Press. The novel, A Ballet of Lepers, will be published with fifteen short stories and … Continue reading →
Before the Law stands a doorkeeper
Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country and prays for admittance to the Law. But the doorkeeper says that he cannot grant admittance at the moment. The man thinks it over … Continue reading →
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Tagged Franz Kafka, Literature, Prague, Short Stories
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