Science fiction and fantasy are almost always most innovative when they’re at their briefest. Imaginative short stories have the freedom to make a huge mess, because they’re not obligated to ...

THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel. Many excellent short story writers have been denigrated for not ...

Comment Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time. We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to ...

From “Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories”: “I Get Smart,” by Pamela Painter. This delightfully breaks one of my flash rules that there’s no room for dialogue in flash.

The KUOW Book Club and Seattle Public Library are continuing our summer reading series this month with "Lesser Known Monsters ...

A short story titled “The Last Hope” first hit Sheila Williams’ desk in early January. Williams, the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, reviewed the story and passed on it.

In his short stories, the late author Jesse Stuart (1906-1984) reshaped W-Hollow into a fictional place that became part of ...

The American short story has always had a challenge finding a broad audience. But in the pages of one magazine, short fiction found a consistent home.

Police in China are arresting writers, many of them women, for writing erotic fiction about men in intimate relationships.

Stephen King called this book "the best crime fiction I've read in 20 years," and now it's being adapted into a movie with an ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

NEW YORK — Essays and early short stories by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee will be published this fall. “The Land of Sweet Forever” compiles short fiction Lee wrote in the ...