Here are six short stories that have lingered with me lately, long after I’ve read them
Here are six pieces of short fiction that I loved in the past few weeks. There’s a theme here that’s appropriate for Halloween, but I’d have shared these if I found them in April.
History Lessons by Arthur Mandal in Forge Lit, a really jarring piece about how quickly we forget the violence and horrifying things from the past
1612 W. Washington by Lillie E. Franks in Flash Frog — a ghost story with beautiful turns of phrase, like this one:
At first, we’re haunted softly, like a pink sky overtaken by the creeping evening.
The Lies that Bind by JP Relph in a new publication called Frazzled Lit (there’s lots of good stuff there) — the narrator’s sister’s body is found 22 years after her disappearance. There’s a killer audio version of the story there too
Mrs. Morrison Proofreads Her Obituary by Taisiya Kogan in Electric Lit — I laughed out loud at this, what a great first piece
WE LOVE KIMBERLEY by Tam Eastley in X-R-A-Y — about a woman whose quest to quit biting her nails has unexpected results. It’s funny and morbid, with a very unique narrator
A Cruise Ship for the Disappeared by Corey Farrenkopf in Electric Lit — an insurance investigation into a disaster involving a cruise ship. I loved the subtle hints about the cause of the disastermore text here