You Ruin It When You Talk by Sarah Manvel
very funny novelette from hipstertopia’s Open Pen
Tag: short fiction
Variations on the Body by María Ospina
a supposedly transgressive thing i’ll probably do again
Bloodchild by Octavia E Butler
exceptionally good short story collection
James Baldwin Threeway
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
Winter in July by Doris Lessing
short stories about non-monogamous colonial types
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath
terrible plath juvenilia published nicely for profit
Love, Pan-Fried by Gray Crosbie
great queer flash fiction from scotland
Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys
unprecedented: i enjoy a book of short stories cover to cover
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
mediocre prose and a child bride: time to cancel Poe
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
finally seeing what the fuss is about
Remembering Oluwale: An Anthology edited by SJ Bradley
a powerful anthology of poetry and prose
The Automaton by David Wheldon
i remember that i don’t like reading about magic
The Numbers by Christopher Burns
“ok mr burns, what’s ur first name” “i dont know”
Jackdaws by Neil Campbell
a return to prose and a whine about violence
Paymon’s Trio by Colette de Curzon
a short story chapbook that’s fine, no more, no less
50 Euro by Karina Bush
if sex sells who’s buying
Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre
Some newly-translated cracking French fiction
Gross In Feather, Loud In Voice by Judson Hamilton
Emotive, bizarre, inventive, stories.
Triumph of the Now TV
home of the lo-fi magazine web series
The Night Visitors by Jenn Ashworth & Richard V. Hirst
Great book, plus lots about why I didn’t win the award I was shortlisted for.
Homunculus by Aleksandar Prokopiev
Contemporary fairy tales from Macedonia
Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed by Liam Hogan
My latest review over at Open Pen discusses the point of fiction…
In the Company of Ghosts: The Poetics of the Motorway edited by Alan Corkish
driving myself crazy / reading books about the motorway
Dysfunctional Males by Fernando Sdrigotti
Men are disgusting.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
an accurate depiction of the lust and boredom that threatens to overwhelm all of us who aren’t pious, delusional, fuckheads
Radar Road: The Best of On Impulse by Nath Jones
A short story collection, and my first experience of an eBook.
The Short Anthology: The Second Issue (edited by Will Martin & Kat Phan)
A collection of short fiction inspired by photography.
The Open Pen Anthology (edited by Sean Preston)
Open Pen is a free literary magazine that publishes new writing. It is distributed in various bookshops both within (andContinue Reading
The Life of a Stupid Man by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
I read another one of those cute Penguin Little Black Classics, this one a collection of three short stories byContinue Reading
I Don’t Need You Any More by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller’s 1967 collection of stories, I Don’t Need You Any More, contains one of the finest pieces of short fictionContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 