Thoughts on Short Fiction: Monique’s Top Five Favorite Short Stories, So Far

If you ask me now when it was that I started to read and love short stories, I cannot tell you. I cannot, because I can…

Book Review: Tenth of December by George Saunders

Tenth of December is a collection of stories about the human condition as exposed to social and economic struggle. This I observed and noted in a reading…

Story Review: Bohemians by George Saunders

The Short Story Station chose George Saunders as our author for April. For that, I chose to read Bohemians, the 11th story from In Persuasion Nation.…

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 Reviews: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro, and Jon by George Saunders

The Short Story Station sought the permission of Lynai to publish her reviews of last month’s short story selections. Lynai is “a lawyer, a teacher, a wife to…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

Jon is the first story that I have read that was written by George Saunders. It was included in My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead, an anthology of love stories…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

The setting will take us into a world ruled by consumerism, wherein an advertising facility houses teenagers, whose reality is based on their brain-implanted advertisement chips.…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

Jon is a story about the eponymous youngster who lives within the confines of a marketing research center as a laboratory rat. He, with other trendsetters,…

A Brief Survey of Our Favorite Short Stories

A couple of weeks ago, a bookish meme surfaced on Facebook. It asked people who were tagged to list ten books that have affected or influenced…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

Jon by George Saunders is one of the short stories included in his collection, In Persuasion Nation. This sci-fi story is set in an advertising research…