Stephen Delaney @smallestwords
Writer, editor, human. Stories in Miracle Monocle, @TahomaReview, New World Writing, @BendingGenres, and elsewhere. š #foreignlit #frogs stephen-delaney.com Joined April 2014-
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Flash Fiction|Microstory Sequence||Stephen Delaney|"INNER MOTH, INNER FLAME" (Three Microstories) - O:JA&L ojalart.com/flash-fictionmā¦
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He followed the blue butterfly in search of milder climes. Is sunlight real? he wondered.
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āSo much of writing seems to be indulging different sides of your personality around a topic or a theme, watching them collaborateāor letting them jockey for prominence, seeing who comes out on top.ā -- Sharon Olds
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āIn autumn, in anticipation of the oncoming cold season, the beastsā bodies were covered with a shiny, golden coat of fur.ā Read from Haruki Murakamiās The City and Its Uncertain Walls, translated by Philip Gabriel. lithub.com/the-city-and-iā¦
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Maximizing Time for Reading | 'Dividual' by @blakebutler buff.ly/40Im3Bt
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Jeff VanderMeer Tells Victor LaValle Why He Returned to Area X ā¦@InterviewMagā© interviewmagazine.com/literature/jefā¦
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Bruno Schulz's story, "The Republic of Dreams", is unforgettable. So I made a PDF copy of it (as translated by Walter Ardnt), and linked it at the bottom of this post. With a constellation of annotations. For anyone. Anywhere. World literature forever. alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2023/5/26ā¦
For me absurdism only works if thereās something real at stake, making things seem dreadful and weird, or funny and dreadful, rather than just weird.
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āThings here are going from bad to worse.ā Read from Juan Rulfoās story collection The Burning Plain, translated by Douglas Weatherford. lithub.com/because-were-sā¦
This is my favorite Daniil Kharms piece (translated by Matvei Yankelevich). Absurd but it has its own logic.
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"I really love books that are kind of thin, but sort of heavy. Thin but incredibly intense. Books that seem like they took 10 years to write, but are almost like the notes for a book that is actually impossible." - Kate Zambreno
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"The Singularity is a slim novel of under 130 pages, but the ideas it explores spill beyond its covers and are perhaps much more relevant today than when it was originally published." @Broke_Bookworm reviews Dino Buzzati's prescient sci-fi classic for @strangehorizons
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At @Polygon, they've posted Karen Joy Fowler's intro to the new edition of Annihilation. "W/ [these novels] VanderMeer crafted the definitive work of climate change speculative fiction... that married weird fic & eco-horror for an unforgettable experience" polygon.com/24208770/annihā¦
How can anyone know their number of story drafts?
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BLOOD TEST by Charles Baxter is coming this fall, available 10/22! Follow Brock Hobson, a divorced dad, as his life gets turned upside down by a medical test predicting he has a predisposition to murder. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730402/bā¦
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[Bio] Stephen Delaney writes short fiction, craft articles, and book reviews. His most recent story, āHauntings (A Sutured Tale),ā appeared in @miracle_monocle. @smallestwords (#932)
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You call me ācoldā then leave in a Jaguar. Now the waterās risingāsloshing against baseboards, swallowing the couch, lifting the square hatch to the attic. Air growing stale, stifling. As the peak looms I dive and suck in ā¦ can breathe when I remember myself. @smallestwords
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