"I pressed my nose to the car window.  As we neared the coast, the light became sharper, the pines scrubbier. Everything became more...

Ghosts!  The Frangipani Hotel: Stories by Violet Kupersmith is a collection of short fiction based on traditional Vietnamese tales, which...

Who's afraid of James Joyce ?  I am, or was .  I can say that now, although I'm not promising to read his novels.  I opened Dublin...

"Anonymity was my secret identity.  I was lost in the sea of Beijing, a nonentity in the metaphor of a metropolis crammed with mi...

Writers of short fiction choose their words with great care and precision. Because they use few words to tell their stories, each and ever...

While I don't think I'd enjoy reading a full-length novel online, I've enjoyed reading short stories online recently. Short f...

Last month I had the pleasure to review Saffron Dreams and to interview the author, Shaila Abdullah . This month I read her debut book, ...

I'm a glutton. Instead of reading one story in All In Together Girls and then stopping to digest it before reading the next one, I...

Last night I relaxed in "reading bed" with my daughter (she fell asleep next to me) and finished The Hidden Target . It's an ...

Even though I'm in the middle of another book, I couldn't resist reading the Virginia Woolf section of Women ...