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Ariana fills the emptiness with baking, but will this hobby prove healthy? Ariel Marken Jack follows the trail of crumbs in The Bread Boy.
Catch this exclusive short story and listen to Marken Jack explain why we're all overwhelmed by the 21st century at https://fictionable.world
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories is a 1999 collection of short stories by E. Annie Proulx, …
After picking up yet another #Proulx book from a #SecondHand store, it was time to start reading one of them. Beautiful style. One of the reason I loved The Shipping News so much.
https://otherwiseaward.org/2024/02/eligible-for-nomination-2023-by-past-winners-fellows
Looking for stuff to read, especially to nominate for awards this year? Consider these books, short stories, & other works published in 2023 by creators whose works have previously won the Otherwise Award, & past Fellows.
The Otherwise (formerly the Tiptree) Award celebrates science fiction, fantasy, & other forms of speculative narrative that expand and explore our understanding of gender.
#scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #books #ShortStories #novel #novels #bookstodon
For #Winter 2023, Linda Mannheim goes in search of a missing person while @SmythBooks investigates the metaphorical plane. Ariel Marken Jack gets baking while Robert Neuwirth opens up his laptop and Liam Hogan goes a few rounds with a hero.
Plus Peter Kuper puts his fascination with insects under the lens.
Catch all these exclusive #ShortStories and more at https://fictionable.world
Reading Almost Midnight, a tiny paperback volume of two short stories by Rainbow Rowell today has made me think that reading a short story or novella is a great way to start my year with some low-stakes, low-choice book reading. A graphic novel could also work.
#ShortStories & #Microfiction picks of the day:
➡️ @InterzoneMag - Sci-fi short story magazine founded 1982 (past contributors include Terry Pratchett, Iain M. Banks etc)
➡️ @lunastation - Magazine of speculative short stories by female authors, mainly posting quotations by female authors
➡️ @UncannyMagazine - Hugo-winning magazine publishing sci-fi & fantasy short stories
➡️ @FutzleFiction - Writing sci-fi microfiction
➡️ @MicroSFF - Long-running microfiction account, usually SFF themes
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On the @fictionable #podcast we go looking for mushrooms with Catriona Bolt.
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On the @fictionable #podcast we explore the magic of fiction, as Shauna Mackay summons up the voices that haunt her #ShortStories
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#books #reading #writing #translation #comics #ShortStories #fiction @bookstodon
Wrestling with work and illness, @seanbirnie dissects the everyday horrors of office life on the @fictionable #podcast
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#books #reading #writing #translation #comics #ShortStories #fiction @bookstodon
We turn it up to eleven on the @fictionable #podcast with Irena Karpa and her short story, Fellow Traveler.
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On the @fictionable #podcast @mjohnharrison looks forward, and looks back.
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Have you done all your #Christmas shopping yet?
Give the gift of a year's free access to the best #ShortStories and #comics from all around the world, with #fiction from Joyce Carol Oates, Etgar Keret, Ali Smith, Lizzy Stewart and lots, lots more in 2024…
'Flowers are useful to no one.' Catriona Bolt stitches a growing obsession in her mycological short story, Bloom.
Catch it exclusively at https://fictionable.world
Image: Pedro Nuno Caetano
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Annie's watching telly in the staff flat and wondering when her life will really start in Matching up the Pattern at the Join by Shauna Mackay.
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Image: Beau B
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Picked up at one of the local #ThriftStores.
