I really love to yell about this short, tender story of a war veteran restoring a fresco in an English village’s small church in the summer of 1920. It’s such a beautiful story.

As with most art forms, the label is somewhat malleable. When it comes down to it, though, it’s all about word count.

The short story is back. Well, kind of. They’ve always been here, featured in literary magazines and published in best-selling collections by the few lucky authors prestigious enough to sell them. But ...

Readers pick short stories for an experience—something new, something enchanting, something that gives them a reason to read.

A short story has velocity and verve, and the best ones create an immediate, instinctual bond between the reader and the characters.

You can finally read this Ernest Hemingway story about Paris after WWII In 1956, Ernest Hemingway wrote to his publisher about five short stories he had written: “You can always publish them ...

Eleven Short Story Collections That Will Get You Back Into Reading If you’ve been looking to dip your toes into the world of short stories, these must-read collections are a great place to start.

Horror short stories are a wonderfully effective incubator for ideas that might not work on a novel-length level, and they’re also perfectly suited to October nights spent reading in bed.

Sydney Sweeney Turning an English Teacher’s Reddit Short Story Into a Movie Warner Bros. has picked up the package for the ‘Gone Girl’-style tale, which has Sweeney starring and producing ...

May is Short Story Month. Celebrate by checking out one of these great Canadian short story collections.