AI generated image of the family from the short story titled Healthy Balls.
I happened to pick this book up at my local library, primarily due to the fact it was very slim and I’d never read Claire Keegan. So Late In the Day proved a quick, thought-provoking read. Comprised of three short stories, this collection delves into the ways men seek to both overpower and belittle women.…
If you haven’t heard of Woody Skinner, I suggest you familiarize yourself with him. He’s a Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award winner whose work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Booth, The Carolina Quarterly, Mid-American Review, and more. I recently had the pleasure of making Skinner’s acquaintance. After hearing his backstory and learning about his writing…
I’m so excited to announce that my latest short story collection, Happy, Sad, Funny, Mad, is now available at Amazon.com! In this collection, you’ll find forty very short stories of various genres that can be generally categorized as happy, sad, funny or … well, you get it. Some will make you laugh, some will make…
As you know, I loved the film Arrival. As is my habit after watching a great movie based on a book, I immediately acquired the source material. It turns out that Stories Of Your Life and Others is actually a short story collection and “Story Of Your Life” is specifically the installment that served as Arrival’s…
Annie Proulx continues her mastery of the short story. In Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3, Proulx once again gives us stories primarily taking place in or associated with Wyoming. Her characters are terribly human-warts and all-and her stories are typically blunt, to the point, and full of (sometimes brief) life. But,…
Enter to win a free copy of my short story collection, The Imagination’s Provocation: Volume II! This collection has stories such as fantasy, realism, horror, science fiction, humor, inspirational, and historical fiction. It literally has something for everyone! All you have to do is email me at scottwilliamfoley@gmail.com with “I Want To Win!” in the…
In this short story collection, Neil Gaiman compiles various fast-paced stories (and a few poems) from over the decades. Some of them are very good; others didn’t really work. But that’s the beauty of a short story collection-if you don’t like one story, there’s a new one just a few pages ahead. By and large,…
Ever since I was a wee little boy, I’ve been listening to the good people associated with Triopia School District go on and on about a man they seem to consider a demigod. This man writes speeches performed by high school students all over the nation; he writes and directs the high school musicals yearly,…
This short story collection from Tobias Wolff is truly just that. Each story gives you enough of the bare essentials to keep you informed and invested, but they never cross the line into anything remotely superfluous. Each story feels very much like you’ve entered right into the middle of things and you are there for…
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