short stories

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Unlike the other artifacts with no traceable provenance, these short stories are bad.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

The short story made its way into Thomas' best-known collection of short stories, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, which was published in 1940.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

He got his start writing short stories in horror and fantasy comics anthologies for DC and Marvel.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

As Sam Sacks writes of this posthumously published collection of short stories, “Segal never loses her equipoise, or her sense of humor, in these most extreme confrontations with mortality.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Last year, we learned about novels and short stories and plays.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce