short fiction | short fiction
Jan.12.2011
My winter issue of Icarus Magazine arrived a couple of days ago, and I opened it with the intention of quickly skimming through the table of contents and the interview, and then tucking aside the magazine for reading on my upcoming train trip to Toronto. Instead, my eye caught on the first line of...
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Dec.30.2010
The Hare’s Mask, by Mark Slouka
Once in a great while I read a short story published in a mass market magazine that proves interesting and entertaining. Slouka’s story appears in the January 2011 issue of Harper’s Magazine. (It’s available online.)
What intrigues me about this story is its...
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Dec.30.2010
The Hare’s Mask, by Mark Slouka
Once in a great while I read a short story published in a mass market magazine that proves interesting and entertaining. Slouka’s story appears in the January 2011 issue of Harper’s Magazine. (It’s available online.)
What intrigues me about this story is its...
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Oct.13.2010
Help us get the word out!
We now have a flyer for our Short Story Contest which you can download, print and post! (To retrieve file click on Download Paris Short Story Contest
Many thanks to designer Peggy Ford-Fyffe King for her wonderful contribution to the Best and Most Delightful Stories...
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Oct.11.2010
Leaves fell like days. He came no more as he would come never more and what seemed so alive just a few weeks before, was over. It felt like falling, like Fall, like the inexorable end not ended. And all to be seen was brown, used as summer uses fruit not picked. Still I came. And still I sat. And...
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Oct.07.2010
We were the only Americans on the bus as it wound along the road under the waterfalls. The windows were open and when the water hit the roof it made a loud drumming and some of it splashed inside. I was sitting by the window and my jeans were getting wet. Kelly was next to me but we hadn't spoken...
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Oct.06.2010
Hi Everyone -
This is my first Red Room Blog... I set up this account over a year ago, but sadly I hadn't takent he time to get familiar with it, so here it sat covered in cobwebs.
But that's all about to change!
The BIG NEWS is that out of 500 manuscripts, my novel, Moonlight, was selected as...
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Sep.23.2010
Leap Of The Heart – Andre Dubus Talking, by Ross Gresham, Editor
I don’t know if I consider myself a short story writer or not. I do write them, but writing long fiction is what really sets my juices flowing. Still, I’ve had more luck in publishing short stories than the longer form, and...
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Aug.25.2010
While we're all waiting for the Sean O'Faolain longlist to be published - soon, soon! - here's some news from me. First, I've just had an audio story accepted by the brand new audio magazine 4'33, which refers to roughly the minutes it takes to read a 1000 word story. The mag is looking for...
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Aug.19.2010
The Great Escape by Annette J Dunlea
Published in The Carrigdhoun Newspaper p.9 21st August 2010
The Cork Paper's senior journalist Seamus Ahern interviewed the now famous Johnny Reilly. Johnny the reporter began what does it feel like to be a Cork hero? He blushed "I'm no hero. I was in the...
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