Short stories have a unique power—they capture deep emotion, human conflict, and moral insight in just a few pages. Over the centuries, certain works have transcended time and language, becoming ...

A "subtle, sensitive and quietly powerful" story of domestic tension, Witness by Lynda McCarthy has been announced as the winning story in this year's RTÉ Short Story Competition 2025 in honour of ...

It’s not every day a 15-year-old has their writing published, but at Laconia High School, a 10th grader with writing ...

From metropolitan Austin to the North Carolina mountains, Carrie R. Moore's collection approaches Southern identity from a variety of angles.

The Red Door is a short story by Iain Crichton Smith. The main character is Murdo, an unmarried man who lives in a small village. Crichton Smith doesn't specify the precise location, but the reader ...

Decades after the great noir writer Raymond Chandler's death, a new, previously undiscovered short story has just been ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Bora Chung, author of "Cursed Bunny," a collection of offbeat, surreal short stories newly translated from Korean into English. A girl whose brother feeds on her blood, ...