Tales from Paul Theroux, Joyce Carol Oates and other writers capture the experiences—comfortable and otherwise—of older age.

From Ray Bradbury to Lucia Berlin to Denis Johnson, these short story collections have continued to get even better with time ...

Short fiction forces writers to exercise economy. Guy de Maupassant’s novels are worth reading, but few would dispute the claim that his best work appears in his stories.

Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love has long been regarded as a modern literary classic. Forty-five ...

Jeremy has more than 2800 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Here we share our teaching ideas for four short stories you could use as starting points for addressing climate change. These four stories are all examples of climate fiction, “cli-fi” as it is ...

Founder Isabella Sun’s idea behind Short Story is that “regular” women’s clothes are designed for those 5 feet 5 inches and above, so shorter folks get left out from experiencing proper-fitting ...

Yes, I know the drugstore Santas have begun their yearly infestation, but, believe it or not, it's still autumn. We have a few precious weeks to get all our fall reading in before we are eaten by the ...

The story of the writer who called himself O. Henry could almost be an O. Henry story. The writer—his real name was William Sidney Porter—had a secret, and he spent most of his adult life trying to ...