Doris Lessing: Behind the Door of Room Nineteen, by Kate Jones TSS Publishing·July 30, 2019Reading Time: 8 minutes I came to Doris Lessing’s story ‘To Room Nineteen’ several years after reading her...
See you Jimmy! Further Considerations of Hemingway’s ‘Up in Michigan’ by Mike Smith TSS Publishing·July 28, 2019Reading Time: 8 minutes Peter Jordan’s essay on ‘priming’ in this early Hemingway story sent me scurrying to...
Writing Soul Etchings: a Collection of Short Stories, by Sandra Arnold TSS Publishing·July 26, 2019Reading Time: 4 minutes Three years ago a poet friend, Jim Norcliffe, told me about the upcoming New...
Flash Fiction: Inciting Incidents and Why A Dog Tilts Its Head, by Adam Lock TSS Publishing·July 15, 2019Reading Time: 7 minutes Believe it or not, the inspiration for this article came whilst talking to my...
Chekhov’s Letters, by Peter Jordan TSS Publishing·July 7, 2019Reading Time: 7 minutes In 2008, I had to submit a 20,000-word dissertation of short stories for a...
Magical Realism and the Contemporary Short Story in the UK, by K. T. Wimhurst TSS Publishing·June 11, 2019Reading Time: 16 minutes Rental Hearts, Lion Lovers and Girlfriends in the Deep Freezer: Magical Realism and the...
Of Mice and Men: the Short Fiction of John Steinbeck TSS Publishing·May 17, 2019Reading Time: 15 minutes In the Penguin compilation volume, The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (2009 [1953]), the...
Alles Kaputt! Mary Postgate Revisited, by Mike Smith TSS Publishing·May 10, 2019Reading Time: 6 minutes It could be that one of the greatest obstacles to overcome when reading Kipling’s...
What Makes a Winning Flash Fiction? by Emily Devane TSS Publishing·May 9, 2019Reading Time: 5 minutes How To Write Winning Flash Fiction What makes winning flash fiction? There’s no single...