The Night the Ghost Got In by James Thurber is one of our favorite stories from the man who practically put the New Yorker on the map. That’s right, back then magazines like the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post and Colliers were jam-packed with short stories. Today, as Vonnegut often said, you couldn’t even…
by Roberto Dinero… Hi. My name is Roberto Dinero, and I’m from the LA. East LA. The mean streets, where it all goes down. Shit. Okay, so you know who I really am. What gave it away? But that’s not the point. Everybody has the right to use a pseudonym. If Martin Lieber gets to…
Did you know RWM has its own in-house band? Doesn’t everybody? Enjoy…
Great news. We got our very first Goodreads review and it’s a good one. It’s not just 5 stars, but the reviewer actually picks up on some of the best features of the book. I guess this means that it works. Awesome! The reviewer touches on certain key points, like “The curated list…
We love stories that are self-contained. TRUE Flashbytes. In fact, it’s so easy to place it even fits right in on Reddit. The Sudden Walk by Franz Kafka is one of our favorite stories of all time. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir The actual story itself is only two sentences long, with the first…
2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was originally published in the digest magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction in January 1962. #kurtvonnegut 2BR02B is a 1962 dystopian short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. about a future where nobody gets old anymore. At the same time, there is a max population cap of 40 million. For the WHOLE…
A Very Short Story is one of Ernest Hemingway’s earliest literary works. Not just one of his earliest flash pieces, but one of his first pieces altogether. Remember, Hemingway first started writing for the Toronto Star, followed by the Kansas City Star. This was all way before moving to Paris. The short appeared first as…
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, first published in South of No North (1973). Once again Charles Bukowski explores the depths of his alcoholism. The story itself is based on a near-fatal 1954 internal hemorrhage that almost killed Bukowski, painting a picture of drinking not as a pleasure, but as dark…
by Mr. Z… How do you get today’s younger generation to get into Shakespeare? Bob Zaslow, Mr. Z, has come up with the perfect solution: Rap Notes, Shakespeare Raps. Just ask Homer (if he were still around). He’d tell you the only way his fans could pass down The Illiad and The Odyssey to their friends was by rhyming…
OK, I know: another crazy Thompson story. It’s a short one. Quick background: Death of a Poet by Hunter S. Thompson was previously published in his collection Screwjack. The story is about a chaotic night in a Green Bay trailer park after a Packers loss, focusing on a friend’s breakdown. The Packers have lost, and the…
