Spanning countries and traditions, magical realism has become a robust genre filled with stories of family, love and loss, all with a twist or a quirk. These elements can vary from ghosts of ...

In her 2019 short story book, Orange World, you’ll find ghosts, zombies and a breastfed devil, and while those might sound like horror stories, they’re actually mesmerizing magical realism ...

Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez may be considered the fountainhead of magic realism or magical ...

"MONSTRESS" was the collection of short stories that put Filipino American writer Lysley Tenorio in the literary map. He ...

You can finally read this Ernest Hemingway story about Paris after WWII In 1956, Ernest Hemingway wrote to his publisher about five short stories he had written: “You can always publish them ...

Brand new stories, from today’s best writers written exclusively for Radio 4 – the home of the Short Story Radio 4 is the world’s leading commissioner of new short stories. Expect excellent ...

As our readers’ stories attest,... In this true short love story, a party girl meets her match as she passes through Montana with a traveling ...

Magical realism subtly ... telling a deeply personal story about love, family, and the challenges faced by unaccompanied minors.” With its blend of social realism, magical undertones, and ...

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