A list of short stories

for our dwindling attention spans

The other day, I picked up a copy of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, which publishes short stories, and I read one that’s very good. It was the kind of story that reminded me what good writing can do, and it left me with the desire to drop a recommendation to someone, but, hey, I have an entire email list I recommend it to! So here we are.

While we’re at it, I’ll recommend a few others, too. This is what I came up with:

• Children of Air by Gabriela Santiago (published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue #36)

• Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang

• The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

• The Honest Fox, or a Truth Shared is not a Truth Lost by P. H. Lee

• Three Worlds Collide by Eliezer Yudkowsky

• The Egg by Andy Wier

• Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar

• Sort by Controversial by Scott Alexander

• Evil Robot Monkey by Mary Robinette-Kowal

• All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (also a novel; originally a short story)

• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

Each of these stories can be read in a single sitting. Why not crack one open for the weekend?