short story
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The first short story that will run in Drafting is an 1,800-word tale based on the Showtime cable series “The L Word” and written by Ilene Chaiken, the show’s co-creator and another co-founder of Run-A-Muck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Now it’s planning to monetize a more surprising type of media: the short story.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
In his short story “Intimacy,” Raymond Carver uses the metaphor of “dead leaves” to describe the unresolved wounds between the narrator and his ex-wife.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
He was reviewing the 1968 television movie “The Thanksgiving Visitor,” an adaptation of the Truman Capote short story.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
A week earlier she’d made photocopies of the first chapter, a short story Ralph Ellison published as “Battle Royal.”
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
