“It’s very persuasive and made me cry,” says Darby, who teaches short story writing at City University in London, and whose own stories have been produced for BBC Radio 4. “If you can ...

In a world of ever-shrinking attention spans, the short story collection offers a potent dose of literary satisfaction. This ...

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“You wouldn’t start out trying to do a marathon, and writing a novel is basically a marathon. Short stories can be the daily run,” says the writer. “Think of them as both a way of learning ...

“You can do things in a short story that you can’t do in longer form prose,” enthuses Caldwell, . “You can be more experimental: you can write stories set in the future tense, or a ...

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but it turns out she's a dab hand at short stories too. This is another classic example of a well-utilised twist ending and the devastating power that can be caused by a perfectly-delivered final ...