This comes out July 7. Cool to be included, insane lineup of good writers here. www.bestmicrofiction.com/books/2026.h...
The 13th issue of Socrates on the Beach is up. Thank you to the writers and translators. socratesonthebeach.com
Pleased to have a new story about life in a very odd small town in @leanmag.bsky.social the magazine for “non-protagonist-centered fiction”
Excited for this nomination from the excellent (and awesomely-named) @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
I wrote about Garrett Caples’ “Proses” for this list of fave story collections 2025. A lot of good ones here. Two more I snuck in in the last few weeks: “Farthest South” by Ethan Rutherford and “The Woman Dies” by Aoko Matsuda.
Some fave short story collections, chosen by our contributors, some released this year, some just read and appreciated this year.
New totally normal story about a robot in a marching band. Thanks to @flashfrog.bsky.social and @lindamayhawkins.bsky.social
We are officially LEANing into spring over here with issue #11!
Matt Leibel's "Town" describes a sort of place that's bigger and smaller than the sum of its parts.
Meanwhile Selen Ozturk's story "Aurora" is all about the push-and-pull between a story and its writer.
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LEAN magazine is devoted to non-protagonist-centered fiction, an approach to literature that formally deemphasizes the protagonist.
One afternoon at band practice, the robot picked up one of Billy’s bones and brought it to his metal polymer lips. Billy was our first trombonist—but Billy had ears. And after hearing the robot blo…
