And off it goes, Richard Lea’s Personal Anthology, fifty and alone, rambling about a country nearly uninhabited, wearing a frock-coat and shabby canvas trousers, sweating under the electric-yellow dome of the municipal force field, shooting a straight piss into the base of the guava tree…

We'll have another Personal Anthology this Friday. This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is Richard Lea, editor of @fictionable.bsky.social. Sign up here if you don't already subscribe. RT if you do! apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

The future looms over Massachusetts, but can we stick the landing, asks Joel Cox in his short story Variable Rewards: www.fictionable.world/stories/vari... Image: Cristina Zaragoza #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Rose hasn't spoken to her father for eight years. But, in Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? by Holly Edwards, the call of home is strong: www.fictionable.world/stories/litt... Image: Julia Taubitz #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

What's the reality of motherhood? In this graphic short story, Bruna Martini takes it one day at a time: www.fictionable.world/stories/one-... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

Many congratulations to Diana Evans, who has won the Jhalak prize with I Want to Talk to You: www.jhalakprize.com/the-prize Tuck in to her latest short story, Ice Cream, exclusively at @fictionable.bsky.social www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-... #books #reading #writing #fiction

Memory collides with the facts on the ground in this short story from Takiguchi Yūshō, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood: www.fictionable.world/stories/pepp... Image: Geio Tischler #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Everything is on hold when you're looking for a job and waiting for a flat. Diana Evans looks into the deep freeze in her short story Ice Cream: www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-... Image: Felipe Pierreson #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Short fiction is sometimes long in the making, says @lucycaldwell.bsky.social But it can also catch the current moment while it is still on the wing: www.fictionable.world/blogs/lucy-c... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

For Takiguchi Yūshō and the translator Jesse Kirkwood, fiction is a matter of listening to what the story has to say: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/tak... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

With the backlash against trans people in full swing, fiction can play an important part in helping us understand each other, says Holly Edwards: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/hol... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

The American dream is fracturing under the pressure of social media and AI. But Joel Cox tells the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast that doesn’t mean we can’t have a laugh: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/joe... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

Giving birth is like being run over by a bus, Bruna Martini says on the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast But framing the experience in a comic can give a sense of perspective: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/bru... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast we talk graduation, jobs and holding on to hope in the face of accelerating crisis with Diana Evans: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/dia... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #bookstodon

For Takiguchi Yūshō and the translator Jesse Kirkwood, fiction is a matter of listening to what the story has to say: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/tak... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Everything is on hold when you're looking for a job and waiting for a flat. Diana Evans looks into the deep freeze in her short story Ice Cream: www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-... Image: Agustin Fernandez #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

With the backlash against trans people in full swing, fiction can play an important part in helping us understand each other, says Holly Edwards: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/hol... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

What's the reality of motherhood? In this graphic short story, Bruna Martini takes it one day at a time: www.fictionable.world/stories/one-... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

Memory collides with the facts on the ground in this short story from Takiguchi Yūshō, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood: www.fictionable.world/stories/pepp... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Everything is on hold when you're looking for a job and waiting for a flat. Diana Evans looks into the deep freeze in her short story Ice Cream: www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

The American dream is fracturing under the pressure of social media and AI. But Joel Cox tells the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast that doesn’t mean we can’t have a laugh: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/joe... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

Rose hasn't spoken to her father for eight years. But, in Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? by Holly Edwards, the call of home is strong: www.fictionable.world/stories/litt... Image: Xavier Castelli #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

What's the reality of motherhood? In this graphic short story, Bruna Martini takes it one day at a time: www.fictionable.world/stories/one-... Image: Josh Bean #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

Memory collides with the facts on the ground in Takiguchi Yūshō's short story Peppermint, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood: www.fictionable.world/stories/pepp... Image: Henry Lai #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #translation #ShortStories #blog #podcast

Everything is on hold when you're looking for a job and waiting for a flat. Diana Evans looks into the deep freeze in her short story Ice Cream: www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-... Image: jesus arango #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Giving birth is like being run over by a bus, Bruna Martini says on the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast But framing the experience in a comic can give a sense of perspective: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/bru... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

The future looms over Massachusetts, but can we stick the landing, asks Joel Cox in his short story Variable Rewards: www.fictionable.world/stories/vari... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Rose hasn’t spoken to her father for eight years. But, in Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? by Holly Edwards, the call of home is strong: www.fictionable.world/stories/litt... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Memory collides with the facts on the ground in this short story from Takiguchi Yūshō, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood: www.fictionable.world/stories/pepp... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Everything is on hold when you're looking for a job and waiting for a flat. Diana Evans looks into the deep freeze in her short story Ice Cream: www.fictionable.world/stories/ice-... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Here's #Spring with exclusive #ShortStories from Diana Evans, Takiguchi Yūshō translated by Jesse Kirkwood, Bruna Martini, Holly Edwards and Joel Cox, plus @lucycaldwell.bsky.social on the long and short of #ShortFiction All at fictionable.world #books #reading #writing #comics #translation #blog

A taste of #Spring with Diana Evans, Takiguchi Yūshō translated by Jesse Kirkwood, Bruna Martini, Holly Edwards and Joel Cox Catch them all at https:fictionable.world #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

#Spring2026 is barrelling down the track, but it's not too late for a third #MysteryAuthor this time in widescreen. Just look at those shelves, that window, that comfy chair. But which author gets to sit in it? #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

And here's our second #MysteryAuthor with laptop, notebook, healthy fruit and a cheerful picture on the wall. But who is it? #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Here's our first #MysteryAuthor for our #Spring issue, with two screens, a set of watercolours and some proper paper. But who could it be? #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast #bookstodon

… #Spring is, um, springing, how about another issue? Just a couple more days now… Image: Esther Gorlee #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

On Monday Bruna Martini will be speaking about her work at LDC and giving a glimpse of her #GraphicStory due in next week's #spring issue. She'll be appearing online with Myfanwy Nixon and Fionnuala Doran. Tickets are at: ldcomics.com/product/ldco... #books #comics #reading #writing #events

Everything around us in this digital century is unreliable and illogical – we can still build a life out of stories, says Joanna Kavenna: www.fictionable.world/blogs/joanna... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Connections, disconnections – on the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast @samuelrigg.bsky.social gets some perspective on the joys and sorrows of suburban life: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/sam... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast we walk the line between control and risk with Cynthia Banham: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/cyn... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

Thoughts, feelings, laughs – on the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast Tim Conley celebrates the extravagant variety of the short story: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/tim... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

Growing up in La Paz, Rodrigo Urquiola Flores found himself split down the middle. We talk to the author and the translator Shaina Brassard about charting a divided childhood in fiction: www.fictionable.world/podcasts/rod... #books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #podcast

A character pulled in two directions? Welcome to real life, says Cynthia Zarin. www.fictionable.world/podcasts/cyn... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast #bookstodon

Three friends go out for dinner in this story by Diana Evans, but are they all ready to share? You know where to get your Fictionable edition – at @fictionable.bsky.social www.fictionable.world/pages/fictio... Or from your local #bookshop #books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories

Can we hope for redemption at the last? Samantha Harvey paints a portrait of a bitter life in Bona Fide Nihon-kitsch. Get your Fictionable edition at, um, @fictionable.bsky.social www.fictionable.world/pages/fictio... Or from your local #bookshop #books #reading #ShortStories #bookstodon

Everything around us in this digital century is unreliable and illogical – we can still build a life out of stories, says Joanna Kavenna: www.fictionable.world/blogs/joanna... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Thursday is hockey night, but Tristan's father isn't sure he wants to watch in At the Rink by @samuelrigg.bsky.social www.fictionable.world/stories/at-t... Image: Nicole Bartolotta #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

Is there something hiding at the bottom of the garden? Cynthia Banham surveys the ground in Swimming With Crocodiles: www.fictionable.world/stories/swim... Image: onehundredseventyfive #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

When a ghost turns up at the record shop it puts Anna into a spin. Tim Conley pumps up the volume in Records: www.fictionable.world/stories/reco... Image: Valentino Funghi #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

For a young boy from the edge of the city, the house where his grandmother works is like a magic kingdom. Rodrigo Urquiola Flores examines the geography in DYSNEYWORLD, translated by Shaina Brassard: www.fictionable.world/stories/dysn... Image: Ruthson Zimmerman #books #reading #translation