Book Review | Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales is a collection of nine short stories that are a combination of funny, witty, clever, and dark. While I am no stranger…
Story Review: Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood
I have Margaret Atwood’s Blind Assassin and Surfacing on my to-be-read shelf for quite sometime now but haven’t gone ahead to reading them. It’s a…
Story Review: Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood
Happy Endings is a sort of Choose Your Own Adventure story where you are given six plot points to cycle through. The first three are okay, but…
Story Review: Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood
Happy Endings explores endings. A beginning – “John and Mary meet.” – is supplied, and from there the story branches off into possible endings “A”, “B,”…
Story Review: Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood
The story is actually composed of six stories in one. Labeled A-F, Atwood offered six different possible scenarios depicted in the marriage, life, and death of…
Short Stories of the Month: February 2015
The expression “time flies”, to denote the swift and almost imperceptible passage of time, may arguably be the most overused cliché in the history of language. However,…
The Station Poll: Vote for February’s Short Stories
January is on its final stretch. February is beginning to beckon. As always, the Station is getting ready to feature a new set of short stories.…
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…
The Short Story Station 