For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short.Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

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And now, the oldest and longest-running sci-fi TV series ever—Doctor Who—just made Hemingway's famed six-word short story into a very big deal. In the latest episode of ...

So, it turned out, Ken Fuson could write a short story. Now about that sentence: a single, glorious, 280-word catalog of vernal ecstasy.

In her short story collection, “Innards,” Magogodi oaMphela Makhene seems to be driven by the same sentiment. Intertwining rich stories with the tumultuous history of apartheid-era South ...