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The sleepless Greener’s bane, a low murmur promising gossip, just to deliver incoherent flicks of the tongue and fade. Clawing itself up and down the aimless maze of pipes in the Evergreen dorms ...

I was listening on the radio as Julian Gough won the second ever BBC National Short Story Award (NSSA) for The Orphan and the Mob, a “Tipperary Star Wars” of a tale, as Gough himself described it, ...

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PROGNOSTICATION: The future is always a surprise in our annual 55 Fiction contest—sometimes a story’s ending is easy to predict, and sometimes it’s a twist. Credit: Cover image by Leni Litonjua ...

For almost as long as there have been stories in the New Yorker there has existed the concept of “the New Yorker story.” This is broadly understood to refer to something plotless, nuanced and ...

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