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| Sarah Hulse |
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| Matt Bell |
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| Diane Lefer |
Apparently,
May is short story month. Maybe it's that I'm no longer in an MFA program and thus not in on these things, but I haven't heard much about it--not even on my writer-saturated Facebook feed. I guess I get it. It's not like NaNoWriMo, where people challenge themselves to write 50,000 words in thirty days, or even National Poetry Month (April) when at least a few poets I know (and me, this year, though I failed miserably) attempt to write a poem a day. You could write a piece of flash or micro fiction every day for a month, I suppose, or attempt to write a whole collection of stories if you wanted to mimic November's word count goals, but more likely you'd take the opportunity to write a single story in a month. Which isn't such a monumental, brag-worthy feat.
Except the poets and the novelists aren't expected to have finished products at month's end. A story would have to be completely finished, wouldn't it? And though I've written many stories in under a month, it always seems like six months later I have a flash of inspiration and go change them. Maybe that's just me.
Anyway.
There are a lot of good short stories out there. A lot of great ones. But here are three of my favorites, all web-accessible published by
Willow Springs.
"The Receiving Tower" by Matt Bell
"Sin-Tra-La!" by Diane Lefer
"Sine Die" by Sarah Hulse
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