Welcome to Cry Baby Bridge. If you venture here at the right time of year, on the right kind of night, you might hear a baby crying in the wind. You might see some things you didn’t believe were real...
“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them.”
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – was born #OTD, 18 Dec, in Akyab (now Sittwe), in Myanmar. Although born in the Raj & raised in England, his parents were Scots & he considered himself to be Scottish, too. Fatema Ahmed looks at his fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
“Children in Saki are often victors in the battle against authority; his stories salute their boldness but have no truck with sentiment. The children are usually nasty, brutish and short, and loved for it.”
—Katherine Rundell on #Saki, for the London Review of Books
Saki’s “Tobermory”, “The Boar-Pig”, “The Lumber Room”, & many others are hilarious (as is “Esmé”, if you don’t mind all the blood…). But his horrifying winter tale “The Interlopers” is a work of #Gothic art, worthy of the tradition of James Hogg & #RobertLouisStevenson
Climb into the Fictionable archive, with exclusive #ShortStories from @mjohnharrison Joyce Carol Oates, Ali Smith, Sarah Hall, Diana Evans, Etgar Keret, Sabba Khan and more …
I’m part of another StoryBundle, this one featuring ten collections of wintertime short stories, perfect for reading in line at the market, or curled up with a cup of tea.
My Solstice collection, A Flame for Yuletide, is included. This ebook bundle is “pay what you can.” Enjoy!
Give the gift of a year's free access to the best #ShortStories and #comics from all around the world, with #fiction from Joyce Carol Oates, Etgar Keret, Ali Smith, Lizzy Stewart and lots, lots more in 2024…
Give the gift of a year's free access to the best #ShortStories and #comics from all around the world, with #fiction from Joyce Carol Oates, Etgar Keret, Ali Smith, Lizzy Stewart and lots, lots more in 2024…
My latest eBook volume of "The Screw Turns" (Vol 5) is now available on Amazon, and at a special holiday price of $3.99
If you enjoy #shortstories that are a little #noire, with elements of Hitchcock, Dahl, and Poe, and a bit like "The Monkey's Paw" meets "Final Destination, you may enjoy this collection of stories that might make you cringe a little, laugh a lot, and sink into the warm embrace of schadenfreude
I am running a #free#book sale on "The Screw Turns" Volume 3 from Wed, Nov 29 at 12:00 AM PST to Sun, Dec 3 at 11:59 PM PST
This is a collection of #shortstories that are like "Final Destination" meets "The Monkey's Paw", and are a little bit #noire, somewhat murdery, and a lot of schadenfreude.
'Every decision in favour of a sentence is a decision against countless other sentences. Every decision in favour of a story passes up countless other stories. One word destroys another word. Writing means obliterating.'
Judith Hermann examines the paths not taken in We Would Have Told Each Other Everything, translated by @Katyderbyshire in Granta 165., due 23 November.