• Short Story

    Fiction and Poetry

    “The Blackhills”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 24, 2023
    Daily Fiction

    “Ira & the Whale”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 24, 2023
    Daily Fiction

    Happy Is a Doing Word”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 24, 2023
    Daily Fiction

    “Insert Coin”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 14, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “The Confessions of a Very Old Man”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 1, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Book of Extraordinary Tragedies

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 31, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “The Gap”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 11, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Stories from the Attic

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 18, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Resident Aliens”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 12, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    The Last Island

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 1, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “The Wife”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 30, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    The Second Substance

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 27, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Forty-Two”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 14, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Is This You?”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 8, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Original Work”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 2, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Maheov”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 27, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Baptism”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 18, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Rivers of the Unspoilt World

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 16, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Allegory: A Parable”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 13, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Curses”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 6, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Why My Hair Is Long”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 28, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “The Sanno”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 22, 2022
    Short Stories

    “The Method”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 18, 2022
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