I had only ever been exposed to the typical high school English class short stories. I was traumatized by stories like “The ...

"Facts do not provide common ground because the facts of “the other side” do not seem like facts—they seem fake," writes Kurt ...

Harvard University's Houghton Library, a rare book and manuscript depository, has inherited nearly 170 boxes of John Updike's papers, including rejected short stories, personal letters and revised ...

The White Album” by Joan Didion “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” I have been praying at the altar of Joan Didion ...

though of course you can base your story on something that has really happened. Is a short story the same as a novel? A short story is not a cut-down novel. In a novel the author has time to ...