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The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Creative Writing Instructor...
Last week I came into the office where I work, sat down, ate an enormous bagel, and laughed so hard that the guy sitting behind me wheeled his chair over to my desk and said, “What’s so funny?” I...
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The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Three Small Town Stories” by...
I’ve recently become friends with a new handful of people, and out of this group, one woman in particular. Then, over the last weekend, I got to see some old friends from grad school, and in talking...
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The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Come to Bratislava!” by...
I knew I was into Benjamin Reed’s story “Come to Bratislava!” in Big Fiction when the main character, a forty-three year old man named Edgar, makes an observation about the phrase “You are my rock.”...
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The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Buried Voice” by Angie Kim
I don’t often love stories told from the perspective of kids. I think it’s difficult to write a child that feels believable—or interesting, to be honest. For me, stories with a child or teenage...
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The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Prayer for the moth, but also...
I can’t tell you the last time I prayed. At least, not in the way that the narrator does in Caitlin Horrocks‘ recent story, “Prayer for the moth, but also for the spider,” in issue 21 of Memorious. I...
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The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Fear Itself” by Katie Coyle
There’s a lot to love about Katie Coyle‘s story “Fear Itself,” published in the most recent issue of One Story. To start, Coyle is so spot-on in her depiction of teenage girls that about a page in, I...
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The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “An Animal Under the Ground” by...
I think most of us who have ever had customer-facing jobs can say: dear god, it’s exhausting. Human beings, while resourceful and tenacious, are made of meat and therefore susceptible to all manner of...
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The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “My Wife, in Converse” by...
Stories written in the first person are supposed to be more intimate and allow us greater access to the emotions and thoughts of the narrator than second or third person. But what about the characters...
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The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Not Like What You Said” by...
The older I get, the more I notice that my handwriting resembles my mother’s. Her cursive is so even, consistent, and precise that her letters and grocery lists look like they’ve been typed up on the...
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The Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Birthright” by Elizabeth...
I believed in ghosts as a kid. Since then, I’ve wondered why I wasn’t ever fascinated by the lore of other supernatural creatures. I think it’s in large part because ghosts—unlike angels, demons,...
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