The beach kids appear at the screen door like ghosts, and I hide behind my mother’s skirt. Good mornin’, ma’am, they say in soft voices. A brother and a sister, I assume. Same bright eyes ...

RTÉ is inviting entries to one of Ireland's longest established and most significant literary prizes, the RTÉ Short Story Competition in honour of writer and broadcaster, Francis MacManus - find ...

Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, recently posted an AI-generated short story on X. In the post, Altman described how the story was generated by a “new model” which OpenAI has developed ...

It tells the stories of two families ... would occupy eastern Poland in a few short years, making all other concerns irrelevant. In the background, Grade tracks the whirlwind of history as it ...

When you write a short story, the lack of constraints and parameters can feel freeing until you realize the open playground is full of craters, ones you can fall into and then never emerge.

Elton John’s 1972 hit “Rocket Man” might seem adequately melancholy on its own, but the short story that inspired it ... when an astronaut is as regular of a 9-to-5 job as, say, an accountant.

"Hellions" is a collection of 11 short stories set in various places and time periods, from a medieval convent to the modern-day rural South. As you make your way through the book there is no ...

Just seventy-six vehicles short of 300,000 units sold for the model ... As reported by the 428cobrajet.org registry, 12,074 Mach 1 examples left the factory with the 428-cubic-inch (7.0-liter ...

All hail, then, the sci-fi short story, bringing you a slice of the weird, the mind-expanding and the futuristic in pocket-sized format. Did you know that Hugo Gernsback, after whom science ...

Novelist and short story writer Ross Raisin has won the 19th BBC National Short Story Award (NSSA), partnered with Cambridge University, for Ghost Kitchen, a story narrated by a bicycle courier ...