Thoughts on Short Fiction: Women Writers

Yesterday, the world celebrated International Women’s Day and of course humanity celebrated the various women across different eras that have contributed to the world . Of…

Thoughts on Short Fiction: Bennard’s Top Five Short Stories

It is extremely hard to create a list of your favorite short stories especially when you reduce such a list to only five pieces of fiction…

The 1st Anniversary

For over a year now, The Short Story Station has been championing the short form of fiction. Yes, dear readers, we are a year old. A…

Book Review: Dear Life by Alice Munro

If you have the time, I want you to watch the two most recent announcements of the Nobel Prize for Literature. To get you started, here’s…

Short Story Writer of the Month: April 2015

“Why were we made just so, to find so many things that happened every day pretty?” In January of 2013, as the year was just beginning and…

Story Review: Incarnations of Burned Children by David Foster Wallace

I think that one of the challenges in writing flash fiction is how a story can still have an effect on readers despite its limitation to…

Story Review: The Dog Eaters by Leoncio P. Deriada

“The people of Artiaga Street have been eating dog meat for as long as I can remember.” When this story was chosen as one of our…

Story Review: The Whore of Mensa by Woody Allen

Vladimir Nabokov once said in an interview that “Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.” which I only mention because a game or something to…

Story Review: Referential by Lorrie Moore

 “Referential” is Lorrie Moore’s riff on the Vladimir Nabokov story, “Signs and Symbols.” Moore’s homage feature the same setup from Nabokov’s original in which a couple…

Story Review: The Bread of Salt by N.V.M. Gonzalez

The bread of salt! How did it get that name? From where did its flavor come, through what secret action of salt and yeast? The Bread…