According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free* to read online, every (work) day of the month. Why not read along with us? Today, we recommend:
Angela Carter, “The Company of Wolves”
It’s hard not to love Angela Carter: the luscious, playful prose, the sense of brutality, the formal experimentation, the surprise. This, the penultimate story in The Bloody Chamber, Carter’s influential collection of reworked fairy tales {read}
adapted into the film The Company of Wolves