➤ scifi short story translated from chinese; originally published in 2021
➤ it's a fascinating outside-outside pov, a nephew telling the story of his aunt, whose story is that of her famous physicist-astronaut husband
➤ the multiple layers of abstraction work well for this story -- and the narrative loops around itself in how it's told too, wandering forwards and backwards in time to circle around the heart of things
➤ which is really a story about family and about place and about how you decide what to prioritise in your life
➤ it's lovely and thoughtful and wistful. I really liked it!
I published a short story to my dark fiction journal this morning, a story that was originally published with Quail Bell, a Canadian journal. (I am providing the friend link, no paywall.) If you are interested in publishing a dark fiction story, be it a horror story, a tale of unease, a ghost story, an original folk or fairy tale, please keep A Dark Wood in mind as a possible venue. 🖤 💀 #darkfiction#ghoststory#shortstory#writingcommunity
Jenny Erpenbeck opens #Spring 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting #ShortStory that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.
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2027: Das Landgericht Hamburg entscheidet, dass das vorsätzliche falsch beantworten eines CAPTCHA ein schwerer Eingriff in die Verkehrssicherheit ist. Die falschen Trainingsdaten können bei selbstfahrenden Autos zu Unfällen führen.
Der Angeklagte wurde zu einer Freiheitsstrafe von 3 Jahren und einem Schadensersatz von 5 Mio. € an den Kläger Tesla Inc. verurteilt.
Last Chance! The Red Hat Stories Kickstarter ends tomorrow. Fully funded, so it will be published.
Grab your copy @ Kickstarter .com & search ‘the red hat stories’
Narrow 2 way street. Cars parked asking the kerb on far side. I see a car coming towards me, I'm on my bike. I say nothing, no signal, but stop to let him go, although he's going onto the wrong side of the road. He gets to me, winds down his window. "Wha' de fuck are you talking about? Fucking cycle on de footpath ya c**t"
Charming. #dublin#shortStory#autobiography#talesFromTheWorldOfRonan
@Doctor_J_@humanhorseshoes@ronanmcd he ran off, I went to A&E at the Adelaide and Meath hospital incorporating the National Children’s Hospital at Tallaght
Today, I learned that "The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo is an American short story published in 1819 by the pseudonymous Uriah Derick D'Arcy. It is credited as "the first black vampire story, the first comedic vampire story, the first story to include a mulatto vampire, the first vampire story by an American author, and perhaps the first anti-slavery short story"" with proximity to the Haitian Revolution. (Wikipedia)
Robert Louis Stevenson’s #shortstory “The Bottle Imp” was first published (in English) #OTD, 8 Feb 1891, in the New York Herald. It was originally published in #Samoan translation as “O le Fagu Aitu” in the missionary magazine O le sulu Samoa (The Samoan Torch)
If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html#freeread#shortstory#funny#pleaseboost