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Category Archives: Short Story

Review: Hunting Monsters by S. L. Huang

October 16, 2015by Yash 1 Comment

My mother taught me to shoot, but it was Auntie Rosa who bought me my first rifle. It was long and sleek and shiny, varnished wood and brass and just […]

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Fairytales, Fantasy, Retellings, Short Story

Retelling: Cruel Sisters: short story from song

October 8, 2015by Janet 6 Comments

The bare bones of the Twa Sisters ballad goes something like this:* two sisters walk by the water’s edge the elder pushes the younger in the younger sister drowns Most variants, […]

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Death and Mourning, Folklore, Music, Retellings, Short Stories, Short Story

Daydreams for Night by John Southworth and David Ouimet (illustrations)

July 20, 2015by Nafiza 5 Comments

Hardcover, 48 pages Published September 1st 2014 by Simply Read Books Source: Publisher Before I talk about the contents of this book, a shout out to the book designer Naomi […]

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Collections, picturebook, Picturebooks, Review, Review Copy, Short Stories, Short Story

A few more short stories

July 31, 2014by Janet Leave a comment

Steph’s post the other day got me thinking. I know how I read short stories – straight through, cover to cover, unless I enjoy a story so much that I […]

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Anthology, Short Story

J.K. Rowling’s Torturous Short Stories

July 23, 2014by Christopher Owen 1 Comment

“There are celebrities – and then there are celebrities.” – J.K. Rowling as Rita Skeeter in the Harry Potter Sequel, “Dumbledore’s Army Reunites at Quidditch World Cup Final”   If […]

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Fan Culture, Fandoms, Fantasy, Harry Potter, Short Stories, Short Story, This Month's Theme

Sly short stories

July 10, 2014by Janet 2 Comments

Last week I looked at a few light-hearted short stories. This week I thought I’d bring to the foreground a few sly and clever short stories, the kind with trickster […]

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Fairytales, Short Story, Uncategorized

Light-hearted short stories

July 3, 2014by Janet 3 Comments

Short stories in high school anthologies tended toward the bleak. Nothing was resolved, nothing quite made sense, and everyone was unhappy in a sort of run-down, hopeless way. I was […]

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Short Story

Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Four: Tales from Outer Suburbia

May 1, 2014by Christopher Owen Leave a comment

“whenever we had followed his pointy hoof we’d always been surprised, relieved, and delighted at what we’d found. And every time we’d said exactly the same thing – ‘How did […]

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Australian Author, Guest Post, picturebook, Picturebooks, Short Story, This Month's Theme, Young Adult

Review: PULP Literature: Winter 2014: Issue 1

January 30, 2014by Janet 1 Comment

It took me over a month, but I finally handed over my (okay, our) copy of the first issue of PULP Literature to Steph on Monday. And promptly realized that […]

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Canadian, canadian ya authors, LGBTQ, Review, Short Story, Uncategorized

“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison, Rick Berry (Illustrator)

November 13, 2013by Nafiza 4 Comments

Hardcover, 48 pages Published October 28th 1997 by Underwood Books Source: Library “And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes goes goes […]

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Dystopian, Short Story

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