There definitely is an art to writing short stories, and even more so for short-short stories. As the following tales prove, ...

You don’t read short stories. Well, you probably don’t – statistically speaking. Whenever I speak to friends, too, they’re always reading novels or nonfiction. They look at me with curiosity and ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. When the news is one report of human suffering — or environmental degradation or ...

Reading shouldn’t be stressful, but sometimes it’s fun to turn up the heat with a challenge to see how many books you can read in a year. Just don’t talk to us the last two weeks of December – some of ...

A Don DeLillo novel; a Joy Williams short story. By Molly Young Dear readers, This week’s theme is “short and sweet”: Short sentences, short stories, a sweet spot of a prose pair, and that’s all she ...

There’s plenty of horror-related media out there for this time of year. Whether it’s slasher films, YouTube videos or video games, you can always count on a digital screen to whisk you into some ...

We are a nation of storytellers - and if you ever needed proof, you need look no further than our short story writers.