Richard Cory by Edward Arlington Robinson Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said,…
Yes we know, this is a long-ass story. but we just love it so much. Diamond as Big as the Ritz, too! Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Jelly-Bean First published in 1922 collection Tales of the Jazz Age, the story follows Jim Powell, a lazy but likable young man in…
What’s that old saying? Oh yeah: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Here’s the thing. I just bought this house in Lexington, Mass., a small town about half an hour’s drive from where I live in Boston. And not just any house, but a two-story colonial that may very well…
You’re not going to find anyone who likes Dorothy Parker as much as we do. This is one of our favorite Dorothy Parker interviews, credit given to the Paris Review, the Art of Fiction No. 13, from way back in 1956. The interview starts at the very beginning INTERVIEWER: Your first job was on Vogue, wasn’t…
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde is a classic fairy about a giant who builds a wall around his beautiful garden to keep children out, leading to perpetual winter in his garden until a special child’s love melts his heart, bringing spring back and teaching him the value of generosity and forgiveness. The story is…
Anton Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog is a nuanced short story about Dmitri Gurov, a disillusioned married banker, and Anna Sergeyevna, a young married woman, who begin an affair while vacationing in Yalta. What starts as a casual fling transforms into deep, mutual love, forcing them to confront the emptiness of their conventional lives…
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…
Can you believe it? With the hundreds of stories here on Real Flashbytes, we don’t have any Poe. Not one story. So, no better way to start things off than with the Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, circa. 1843. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the best known stories ever.…
Outpost 31 South Pole – Fiction, Novellas, Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror Outpost 31 is an independent publisher and small press located in Enderby Land, Antarctica. Not exactly the South Pole, but close enough. Outpost 31 publishes the grossest and most gruesome titles, fiction mainly in the categories of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. Outpost 31 is an…
Two Dollar Radio Novels, SS, Non-fiction, Memoir, Satire, All Genres twodollarradio.com twodollarradio.com/pages/submissions brett@twodollarradio.com Two Dollar Radio is a family-run, independent publisher based in Columbus, Ohio. Specializing in literary fiction, it was founded in 2005 by husband-and-wife team Eric Obenauf and Eliza Jane Wood-Obenauf, with Brian Obenauf. In 2013, they launched their micro-budget film division, Two…
