Rabbit Island, Elvira Navarro
Combining the gritty surrealism of David Lynch with the explosive interior meditations of Clarice Lispector, the stories in Elvira Navarro’s … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Short Stories
That Old Country Music, Kevin Barry
With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the … Continue reading →
Stillicide, Cynan Jones
Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage. As news breaks that construction … Continue reading →
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Zelda Knight, et al.
Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises … Continue reading →
Tales of Two Planets, John Freeman
Though not a book of just fiction, editor John Freeman compiled poetry, short fiction, and essays from some of the … Continue reading →
Lot: Stories, Bryan Washington
Few writers have done for their city what Washington has done for Houston, which is to say, to articulate how … Continue reading →
An Invite to Eternity, Gary Budden and Marian Womack, et al.
Humanity is facing a challenge if a magnitude ever before seen, compromising new anxieties we are at times unable to … Continue reading →
Mountains Piled Upon Mountains, Edited by Jessica Cory
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to … Continue reading →
Lion City, Ng Yi-Sheng
These are the exquisitely strange tales of Lion City, the first collection of short fiction by award-winning poet and playwright … Continue reading →
Bangkok Wakes to Rain, Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Recreates the experience of living in Thailand’s aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your … Continue reading →