short stories
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The membership benefit is described as: “A living archive of lectures from the grave, letters never sent, and original short stories curated by Bob Dylan.”
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
A young Tennessee Williams wrote short stories while employed as a shoe-factory clerk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Big-name authors like Jonathan Safran Foer, Toni Morrison and Julia Alvarez even wrote original short stories that Chipotle published on its cups and bags.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
I told him I had written short stories in the leather-bound notebook he’d given me, but he didn’t remember the notebook.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
