A trip up north turns into an exchange in @robmunb.bsky.social's story Of All Who Sorrow, Joy, but what does it mean? www.fictionable.world/stories/of-a... #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
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The online literary magazine with short stories and comics from all around the world. Find us at https://fictionable.world
The skies are dark, but there’s little prospect of any sleep in @zhenyao.bsky.social's graphic short story A Night in Kyiv: www.fictionable.world/stories/a-ni... #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #ukraine
A ride-hailing app was a door into unexpected stories for EC Osondu – on the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast he takes us from A to B: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/ec-... #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
The outsiders arrive at the little town and find there’s something missing in Wild by Elaine Vilar Madruga, translated by Samantha Luna. Catch it at www.fictionable.world/stories/wild... #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
Big congratulations to M John Harrison, on this year's #BookerPrize longlist with The End of Everything: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... Catch his short story I Can't Tell at www.fictionable.world/stories/i-ca... #books #reading #writing #ShortStories
Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2026 longlist | The Booker Prizes
From humour to history to heartbreak, and from satire to sci-fi to surreality, here’s the lowdown on this year’s ‘Booker Dozen’
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The people waiting outside the immigration building stretch all the way round the block in The Line by Will Boast. But will Danek make it in? Catch it at www.fictionable.world/stories/the-... #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
#Summer is here with Will Boast, Elaine Vilar Madruga translated by Samantha Luna, EC Osondu, @zhenyao.bsky.social and @robmunb.bsky.social plus @lukehealy.bsky.social on the secret of #writing a romcom. Catch them all at fictionable.world #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #podcast
So here's #Summer with Will Boast, Elaine Vilar Madruga, EC Osondu, @zhenyao.bsky.social and @robmunb.bsky.social Catch them all at fictionable.world #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
And off it goes, Richard Lea’s Personal Anthology, fifty and alone, rambling about a country nearly uninhabited, wearing a frock-coat and shabby canvas trousers, sweating under the electric-yellow dome of the municipal force field, shooting a straight piss into the base of the guava tree…
A Personal Anthology, by Richard Lea
‘He Who Saw the Deep’ by Sîn-liqe-unninni, translated by Andrew George (First written down in about 1200BCE, published in The Epic of Gilgamesh in this translation, Allen Lane 1999)
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We'll have another Personal Anthology this Friday. This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is Richard Lea, editor of @fictionable.bsky.social. Sign up here if you don't already subscribe. RT if you do! apersonalanthology.substack.com/about
About - A Personal Anthology
A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...
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The future looms over Massachusetts, but can we stick the landing, asks Joel Cox in his short story Variable Rewards: www.fictionable.world/stories/vari... Image: Cristina Zaragoza #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
Rose hasn't spoken to her father for eight years. But, in Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? by Holly Edwards, the call of home is strong: www.fictionable.world/stories/litt... Image: Julia Taubitz #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
What's the reality of motherhood? In this graphic short story, Bruna Martini takes it one day at a time: www.fictionable.world/stories/one-... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
Many congratulations to Diana Evans, who has won the Jhalak prize with I Want to Talk to You: www.jhalakprize.com/the-prize Tuck in to her latest short story, Ice Cream, exclusively at @fictionable.bsky.social www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-... #books #reading #writing #fiction
The Prose Prize | Jhalak Prize
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Memory collides with the facts on the ground in this short story from Takiguchi Yūshō, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood: www.fictionable.world/stories/pepp... Image: Geio Tischler #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
Everything is on hold when you're looking for a job and waiting for a flat. Diana Evans looks into the deep freeze in her short story Ice Cream: www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-... Image: Felipe Pierreson #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
Short fiction is sometimes long in the making, says @lucycaldwell.bsky.social But it can also catch the current moment while it is still on the wing: www.fictionable.world/blogs/lucy-c... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
For Takiguchi Yūshō and the translator Jesse Kirkwood, fiction is a matter of listening to what the story has to say: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/tak... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
With the backlash against trans people in full swing, fiction can play an important part in helping us understand each other, says Holly Edwards: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/hol... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
The American dream is fracturing under the pressure of social media and AI. But Joel Cox tells the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast that doesn’t mean we can’t have a laugh: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/joe... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
Giving birth is like being run over by a bus, Bruna Martini says on the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast But framing the experience in a comic can give a sense of perspective: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/bru... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast we talk graduation, jobs and holding on to hope in the face of accelerating crisis with Diana Evans: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/dia... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #bookstodon
For Takiguchi Yūshō and the translator Jesse Kirkwood, fiction is a matter of listening to what the story has to say: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/tak... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
Everything is on hold when you're looking for a job and waiting for a flat. Diana Evans looks into the deep freeze in her short story Ice Cream: www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-... Image: Agustin Fernandez #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
With the backlash against trans people in full swing, fiction can play an important part in helping us understand each other, says Holly Edwards: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/hol... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
What's the reality of motherhood? In this graphic short story, Bruna Martini takes it one day at a time: www.fictionable.world/stories/one-... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
Memory collides with the facts on the ground in this short story from Takiguchi Yūshō, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood: www.fictionable.world/stories/pepp... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
Everything is on hold when you're looking for a job and waiting for a flat. Diana Evans looks into the deep freeze in her short story Ice Cream: www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
The American dream is fracturing under the pressure of social media and AI. But Joel Cox tells the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast that doesn’t mean we can’t have a laugh: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/joe... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
Rose hasn't spoken to her father for eight years. But, in Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? by Holly Edwards, the call of home is strong: www.fictionable.world/stories/litt... Image: Xavier Castelli #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast