Literature Frenzy!

Is this considered emotional minimalism? I’m not totally sure, but it certainly feels like it. Two Days by Aimee Bender is a quick read alth...

It’s pretty wild that my first time taking part in the Deal Me In short-stories challenge was all the way back in 2015! That feels like a l...

In a Tub is another very short story by Amy Hempel, who continues to prove just how much she can compress into such a small narrative space....

Curfew is in effect. I didn’t really care much for this one. Its depiction of small-town paranoia and gender politics felt silly and over-th...

pa-rum pum pum pum, me and my drum. The Battle of Shiloh was one of the bloodiest and most significant victories for the Union during the Am...

Borderlands. My Brother at the Canadian Border by Sholeh Wolpe comes across more like a  prose poem than a short-story, especially the narra...

Pattinson and Dafoe in Roger Eggers' The Lighthouse. Continuing with our Ray Bradbury short-stories for the week, next up is The Fog Hor...

Mirror, Mirror on the wall... I'm not quite sure what to make of this one. Ray Bradbury has real talent for dipping into the macabre, an...

The Maltese Falcon. Humphrey Bogart was arguably the biggest leading man of Hollywood’s Golden Age in the 1930s and '40s. He was the def...