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The online literary magazine with short stories and comics from all around the world #books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #podcast
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The future looms over Massachusetts, but can we stick the landing, asks Joel Cox in his short story Variable Rewards:

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/variable-rewards-joel-cox

Image: Cristina Zaragoza

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Rose hasn't spoken to her father for eight years. But, in Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? by Holly Edwards, the call of home is strong:

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/little-lamb-who-made-thee-holly-edwards

Image: Julia Taubitz

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What's the reality of motherhood? In this graphic short story, Bruna Martini takes it one day at a time:

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/one-day-at-a-time-bruna-martini

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Many congratulations to Diana Evans, who has won the Jhalak prize with her collection of essays, I Want to Talk to You:

https://www.jhalakprize.com/the-prize

Tuck in to her latest short story, Ice Cream, exclusively at @fictionable

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-cream-diana-evans

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The Prose Prize | Jhalak Prize

Jhalak Prize

Memory collides with the facts on the ground in this short story from Takiguchi Yūshō, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood:

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/peppermint-takiguchi-yusho-translated-by-jesse-kirkwood

Image: Geio Tischler

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Everything is on hold when you're looking for a job and waiting for a flat. Diana Evans looks into the deep freeze in her short story Ice Cream:

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-cream-diana-evans

Image: Felipe Pierreson

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The short story collection is quickly becoming an endangered species, so I support this author's efforts, sight-unseen.

The "genre-fiction" short-story collection is even more rare. But it also has a strong tradition (think: H. Ellison's "Dangerous Visions"). And I made me one of those!

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Short fiction is sometimes long in the making, says Lucy Caldwell. But it can also catch the current moment while it is still on the wing:

https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/lucy-caldwell-a-dart-into-the-day

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For Takiguchi Yūshō and the translator Jesse Kirkwood, fiction is a matter of listening to what the story has to say:

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/takiguchi-yusho-jesse-kirkwood-peppermint-fiction-story-voice

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Takiguchi Yūshō: ‘When I’m writing fiction, I have very little sense I’m the one inventing the story’

For Takiguchi Yūshō and the translator Jesse Kirkwood, fiction is a matter of listening to what the story has to say

With the backlash against trans people in full swing, fiction can play an important part in helping us understand each other, says Holly Edwards:

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/holly-edwards-little-lamb-who-made-thee-trans-queer-politics

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