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Take My Advice and Read These Short Stories
- Jennifer Peaslee
- Apr 28
- 2 min read
I've talked about my love of reading short stories before. Short stories pack a particular emotional punch that you don't get from novels because they are different beasts.
And while I'm enjoying my read of Middlemarch, I would go crazy (wait, I already am) if that's all I was reading right now.
Happily, I'm subscribed to several excellent lit mags and Substack writers, so I have plenty to read.
So, what have I read recently? Here's a small selection of my favorites:
"The Ascension of Magdalene" - Nightmare Magazine (1,642 words)
A mysterious wind brings crippling headaches to the wives in an isolated factory town; doctors dismiss it as nothing more than hysteria.
"Finishing Touches" - Nightmare Magazine (744 words)
A tech billionaire husband spends a decade and tens of millions building the haunted mansion of his dreams for himself and his bride.
"See You In Hell" - Every Day Fiction (788 words)
In a hotel where the dead arrive with their wounds still fresh, one gunslinger learns that some debts follow you beyond the grave.
"No Regerts" - Urban Pigs Press (1,955 words)
A woman returns to the tattoo shop that saved her life twelve years ago, hoping to thank the artist who pulled her off the streets.
"The Aro Shield" - Rat Bag Lit (100 words)
Cupid meets his match.
"Thin Skin" - Wyldblood Press (1,768 words)
When her husband steals her company and turns her humanitarian robots into weapons, a brilliant engineer exacts revenge in a way no one would ever suspect.
A dying cowgirl discovers a garden of mutant vegetables growing from radioactive bull manure.
I sincerely hope y'all check these out. None of them is over 2,000 words, and each of them is free.
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