Literature Frenzy!

There's something fishy going on here... Richard and Joan Maple are downright insufferable—and yet, I can’t stop reading about them. Thi...

Walter who? Walter Briggs  is essentially Updike doing his usual Updike thing while on autopilot: sentimentality and nostalgia.  Jack and Cl...

 Ecstasy of Gold. Bookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslinger by Charles Yu wears its influences proudly, with a clear nod to Sergio Leone’s spaghetti ...

Where's Ken? Ken's dead, baby. I will never look at Barbie dolls the same way again.  I recently reviewed another short story center...

Hello, dearie. Care for a cuppa? I've fallen a bit behind on Fanda Classiclit’s Agatha Christie short story challenge , but I’m slowly m...

So it begins. It's been a minute since I've read anything by Ray Bradbury and didn’t expect to stumble into ancient Chinese folklore...

Well, it's no Downton Abbey. Captain Hastings often plays second fiddle to the charismatic genius of Hercule Poirot, but in The Mystery ...

In Loving Memory of John and Mary  — Margaret Atwood’s Happy Endings isn’t your typical romantic short story. Rather, it’s a clever, self-a...

We're all born naked and the rest is drag. Richard and Joan Maple should probably be in couple’s therapy. Actually, scratch that. They d...