Today (Thurs 22nd Dec) – the shortest day of the year – we invite you to celebrate National Short Story Day: a celebration of prose’s short-yet-perfectly-crafted form! We hope this website will encourage you to pick up a short story and let your reading take you to territories previously unexplored. So, take your time to read, watch, download and listen to stories freely available throughout this site, and also consider other people’s recommendations. Also, submit your own short story of 10 words or less on twitter @shortstoryday: the best five contributors win a free book!
The recommendations page, by a number of UK editors and writers, is great, both for the stories and comments. Some expected choices and some real surprises, to me—and reminders that I am long overdue to read Ali Smith.
“Lady Into Fox” by David Garnett is weird and wonderful.
