Dan Wickett was also, to the best of my knowledge/memory, the founder of #ShortStoryMonth. And my introduction to the work of @imdavidabrams.bsky.social. Sad news here via this morning's @shelf-awareness.com. www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...
Hi, #readers!
I thumbed through my BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES for the end of #shortstorymonth and found a lot of very interesting ephemera I'd used as bookmarks.
Y'all know me. I thought, "How cool!"
So, I've created a thing: #EphemeralBookmark
Let's post & hashtag our favorite curious bookmarks!
Welp. #ShortStoryMonth has drawn to a close. I'm sharing my pride and joy: my BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES collection.
I've asked for BASS as a birthday/Christmas gift for years and years and years. My first was the 1989 volume, guest edited by Margaret Atwood, and the series ed was Shannon Ravenel!
A graphic with the text "The short of it: Short Story Month on All Lit up" with the cover of Quietly, Loving Everyone by Curtis John McRae and an inset photo of the author.
"QUIETLY, LOVING EVERYONE is a reference to the ways we don’t show up for each other, or the ways we fail to show up [...]"
We talk to Curtis John McRae about his debut collection with Vehicule Press for our #shortstorymonth series #theshortofit
alllitup.ca/the-short-of...
Especially on this penultimate day of #ShortStoryMonth!
The end of #ShortStoryMonth is nigh!!
If you’re looking to read a FREE fantasy short story about hunting down a monstrous harpy (who isn’t??), look no further:
www.patreon.com/posts/rustbo...
Thank you for all the love and support 🫶🏻💙📚
#Fantasy #FantasyBooks #DarkFantasy #Author #BookSky
BLOG POST: "My Five Available Short Story Collections" dawncolclasureblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/my-f... #books #Halloween #horror #scary #shortfiction #shortstories #ShortStoryMonth #stories #storycollection
Another recommendation for Short Story Month: Some People Let You Down by Mike Alberti. Beautifully written, melancholy stories by a local MN author and community asset.
💙📚 #booksky #books #reading #bookreviews #bookrecommendations #shortstories #shortstorymonth
It’s Short Story Month! These are a few short story collections I’ve recently enjoyed, across various genres and from several different countries.
💙📚 #booksky #books #reading #bookreviews #bookrecommendations #shortstories #shortstorymonth
Celebrate #ShortStoryMonth!!
If you want to support Canadian independent publishing, please read or share our FREE fantasy pirate short story!🏴☠️⚔️🔥
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#CanLit #SupportIndies #ShopIndies #IndieBookShop #IReadCanadian
Happy #ShortStoryMonth #BookSky!!
If you want to read a FREE fantasy short story featuring pirates, bloody battles, and elemental magic, look no further! 🏴☠️⚔️🔥
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Thank you for all the love and support, it means so much 🫶🏻
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It is #ShortStoryMonth. May I offer you a free free free story? An old gay man, an ugly girl, and a talking horse hang out and discuss mean boys.
Happy #NationalShortStoryMonth! Here's a small selection of some of our homegrown favorites. What are yours?
#WilliamFaulkner #BarryHannah #LarryBrown #TomFranklin #MississippiWriters #LiteraryMississippi #ShortStories #ShortStoryMonth #OxordMS #shopindie #shoplocal
in honor of #ShortStoryMonth next week's newsletter WILL have a never-before-seen story for subscribers! hit it n git it
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Join us for a discussion of Latinx-forward literary magazines— "Short Fiction, Long Impact"
Wed., 5/28, 8 p.m. ET
With
Carribean Fragoza, Huizache
Raina J. León, PhD, Acentos Review
Rossy Evelin Lima, PhD, Latino Book Review
Russ López, LatineLit
#free #shortstorymonth
latinxinpublishing.com/events
ID: A photo of sales associate Christina holding a pile of Astoria short story collections.
📚🫶 Enjoy our very good short story collections for #ShortStoryMonth.
🔗 houseofanansi.com/collections/...
#booksky #writingcommunity #canlit
I could see Fabrizio over Marco’s left shoulder, shaking his head vigorously, trying, like Jiminy Cricket, to make me do the right thing. I knew that the right thing would be to look Marco in the eye and simply say “No.” But something inside me told me this was going to be a good story, and I’m willing to do a lot for a good story—including things I’m not always proud of.
Perfectly timed for #ShortStoryMonth, and for a moment when #libraries are on our minds (and, frankly, simply to brighten my own morning): Etgar Keret's "Library Lovers" (trans. Jessica Cohen). etgarkeret.substack.com/p/library-lo...
Come and celebrate #ShortStoryMonth with JBC this Wednesday May 14 @ 12:30 p.m. ET on Zoom. We'll be chatting with the authors of the 3 stories published in the 2025 issue of PAPER BRIGADE, JBC's annual literary journal. Reserve your spot today! https://bit.ly/3RD99Pt
But when the hospital called ME after he was stable, when the hospital called ME and asked if I could see him, when the hospital called ME because his only living relative was an ELDERLY AUNT holed up in a nursing home halfway across the country, when the hospital called ME because, quite frankly, he must have forgotten to update his emergency contacts after our breakup, when the hospital called ME because, to be even more frank, he was apparently still not on speaking terms with his EX-WIFE and had no one else, not a single relative or friend or halfway dependable acquaintance except for ME—RACHEL, his estranged EX, an ANXIOUS MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN HAVING A BAD HAIR DAY—I couldn’t help thinking that it already sounded like a movie.
This week's #SundaySentence comes from one of my favorite stories in @egreenberg.bsky.social's debut collection. Perfect reading for #ShortStoryMonth. www.erikadreifus.com/2025/05/sund...
Still in #ShortStoryMonth, so this time it's Reservoir bitches : stories
by Dahlia de la Cerda. The translators from Spanish are Heather Cleary & Julia Sanches.
Still in #ShortStoryMonth, so this time it's Reservoir bitches : stories
by Dahlia de la Cerda. The translators from Spanish are Heather Cleary & Julia Sanches.
copy of Emily Greenberg's story collection
#FridayReads - #ShabbatReads - #ShortStoryMonth Reads: @emilygreenberg.bsky.social's ALTERNATIVE FACTS.
A graphic with the text "The short of it: Short Story Month on All Lit up" with the cover of Hello by David Carpenter and an inset photo of the author.
"[The short story] allows a writer to drive towards a profound awakening in a dozen or so pages."
We interview David Carpenter and read from his new collection HELLO (@shadowpawpress.bsky.social) for our #shortstorymonth series #theshortofit.
alllitup.ca/the-short-of...
There are lots of ways to celebrate reading this month!
#mysterymonth #mysterybookmonth #murdermystery #murdermysterymonth #shortstorymonth #shortstories #getcaughtreadingmonth #getcaughtreading #bookholidays #maybooks #maystories #atbaypress #celebratereading #celebratecanadianstories
For #ShortStoryMonth, going through my short fiction that's still online—here's"A PERFECT DAY FOR MONKEYFISH" (2021), published in ELECTRIC SPEC
electricspec.com/Volume16/Iss...
LOCUS called it "an amusing take on the Monkey’s Paw trope."
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