May is National Short Story Month, so we’re celebrating the tail end of it by honoring some short stories of the past year that are deserving of you...
With the exception of a few female literary giants, it seems that even when a big publication does take note of a compelling female voice, she isn't nearly as strong a writer as her male colleagues.
It saddens me seeing writers buy into a class war. In today's market, lit looks down on commercial, which look down on genre, which eschew whatever is lower on the literary food chain.
"In all great novels there is some quality of moral ambiguity, some potentially controversial element that keeps the book from being easily grasped or...