Short stories published in 2023
Listing 37 stories.
In the depths of his mind, a writer tries to uncover the autonomous, nefarious motivations of his own characters.
To fulfill her mother’s dying wish, a woman tries to find the right man to have sex with just once.
An elderly Korean woman finds a picnic basket in the back of her recently deceased husband's closet, bringing back a flood of memories that eventually help her find closure.
A man working at the Met is given an interesting—and daring—proposition regarding one of the museum’s artifacts.
A man reflects on his complicated summers with his father.
As a man tosses out his old things during the pandemic, he thinks back to the lives he lived with them.
A girl who can see the auras of others struggles to make sense of those auras which she encounters as she grows up.
A babysitter faces a home invasion one night and discovers the truth about the baby she has been asked to protect.
A woman in her twenties struggles to recover the memories of what happened to her and her family at a young age.
A middle aged woman finds out shocking new details about her past while cleaning out the attic of her childhood home.