The coming weeks are shaping up to be unusually busy for fans of short fiction. “On short fiction, you can keep approaching it. Sales of fiction short stories and anthologies have fluctuated year to year but increased overall. In that way, she said, short fiction is unlike many salt-and-sand-encrusted beach reads, which can melt away from memory quickly in the heat. In several stories, Mr. White drops in on Forney Culpepper, an aspiring writer exploring his identity after his father dies and his mother abandons him.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 23, 2018 15:09 UTC