Laura van den Berg writes beautifully. Her sentences and paragraphs feel like gauzy, ethereal dreams. It’s the kind of writing that seems effortless which means it probably took great amounts of effort. She populates the…
Posts tagged Short Stories
Pimping Peabo
I have been totally remiss in announcing the publication of Peabo’s first short story, in The Bellvue Review. Her story is called “To the River.” The best part is that you can download a PDF…
The Hold Steady Effect
When I first discovered The Hold Steady it was love at first listen. They were like nothing I’d ever heard before. I fell hard and fast and there was no looking back. But, sadly, as…
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it, so good it literally took my breath away
Anyone who has ever read Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” a second (or more) time will remember that chest-tightening tension that happens when you read about the grandmother and…
$25, a cracker, and a nearly nine-year-old blog
I’ve been listening to Tori Amos’ “Silent All These Years” on repeat for the last forty-five minutes or so. It’s a delightful break from the repeated airing of Jackson Browne’s “Doctor My Eyes” and Neko…
Twin Study
If I were independently wealthy I would buy hundreds of copies of Stacey Richter’s short story collection Twin Study so that I could pass them out to people who claim to not like short stories…