Big Girl
Her stories contain both rage and humor in an effective if uneasy mix. As droll as it is tall, “Big Girl” applies journalism’s clueless prose to the hormonal horrors of…
Literary MagNet: Patricia Q. Bidar
In 2018, Patricia Q. Bidar, at the age of fifty-eight, published her first pieces of flash fiction. More than seven years later she has published over a hundred stories in…
You Can’t Go Home Again
Ágota Kristóf’s confounding fictions of exile
The Azrael World
Joy Williams’s stories of angels, demons, and death
Lumberjack Flash
A story collection finds multiple ways to explore and explode gender identity
Rebel with a Clause
A career-spanning collection of Lynne Tillman’s digressive, renegade fictions
Sugar and Other Stories by Joy San
A devoted yet amoral creature ensures a girl’s blood sugar stays up. A gory ritual creates a charming woman’s perfect smile. A neglected and overworked wife is slowly subsumed by…
Behind Closed Doors
The Sicilian writer Maria Messina's captivating and brutal stories of the women of her home island are presented in an English translation by Elise Magistro. Messina, who died in 1944,…
Preaching to the Perverted by James Bennett
Horror can be a source of release - our fears, our anger at the world’s injustices and also our hopes - to be seen, understood and accepted for who we…