short stories
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I’d like to write other things — a memoir, short stories, a novel one day maybe.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
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
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
For 4 weeks, she’s been giving me the class readings to look over ahead of time—3 short stories and our 1st assigned novel, The Call of the Wild.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
