Yennie Cheung

A few of my friends asked me for the full list of short stories I featured for Short Story Month, so if you'd rather read them without m...

Today, I'm rounding out the month by listing a few stories I wanted to include but couldn't for one reason or another. I'd decided to do ...

"Walls" by Tod Goldberg (read by Gary Cole) I wanted to post about Tod earlier this month for Teacher Appreciation Day, but I couldn't fi...

"Statement of Absolute Hatred" by Rasha Abbas, translated by Alice Guthrie I hadn't heard of Rasha Abbas until I went looking for this st...

"Bed Bug" by Jillian Tamaki I read Jillian Tamaki's book Boundless earlier this year after seeing it recommended somewhere. It was touted...

"Love Might Be Too Strong a Word" by Charlie Jane Anders If you couldn't tell from my story choices, I don't read a lot of high-concept s...

"The Garden" by Luis Negrón This is the story I'd read that led me to find that amazing Silvina Ocampo story a few days ago. I'd learned ...

"Inventory" by Carmen Maria Machado I'm reading Her Body and Other Parties right now and only three stories in, which means I've finished...

"What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky" by Lesley Nneka Arimah I read this at the suggestion of fellow writer Jesse Wehrenberg, who...

"Fatso" by Etgar Keret I first encountered this story one year at AWP when Etgar Keret and George Saunders each read a story aloud to a r...

"The Voice" by Silvina Ocampo, translated by Frances Riddle I was not expecting to write about this story at all. In fact, I read this co...

"In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel I've been sitting on the posting of this story pretty much the entire month bec...

"Redemption" by Lisa Quigley If you're looking for fresh, new literary voices, it doesn't get much fresher than Lisa Quigley's first publ...

"Who Is Like God" by Akwaeke Emezi I think I found this story through someone else's tweet about Short Story Month, and I'd never heard o...

"The Expected Passing of Elliot’s Wife" by JSP Jacobs I like a good writing contest, but I hate the entry fees. I get that most journals ...

"The Americans" by Viet Thanh Nguyen I read this story in his story collection, The Refugees, earlier this year, and I'm kicking myself f...

"Come and Take Me Home" by Lena Nguyen Here's a story I discovered the other day, basically on a whim. My friend MeLaina Ramos mentioned w...

"Wrestle Mania" by Cynthia Romanowski When I started writing about short stories for this month, I decided that I one of the things I wan...

"The Night Cyclist" by Stephen Graham Jones My friend and co-author Kathryn E. McGee reminded me of this story's existence, and I'm glad ...

"The Child" by Lydia Davis Note: You're going to have to scroll down to the second page of this to view it. Be warned: It's all of one pa...