John Dufresne

Alice Munro's new short story in the current Harper's.

"Always remember that when a man goes out of a room, he leaves everything in it behind," her friend Marie Mendelson has told her. "When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her."

New flash fiction from Merle Drown in the Kenyon Review.

Today's short story waiting to be written: The owner of the Serenity Gardens Funeral Home claims the four bodies left behind when he sold the funeral parlor were not his responsibility! "I'm sure they're not."  (thanks to Lisa in Austin)

Today's short story waiting to be written. Woman starves her one-year-old to death because he won't say "Amen" after meals. (thanks to CD in Tuscaloosa)

Another short-short from Merle Drown.