How completely psyched are we to have the EXCLUSIVE on Cecil Castellucci’s latest short story??!! Yeah, probably just as psyched as you are to read it. So get some strong tea ready to accompany you as you get sucked into this creepy, compulsively readable retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood.”
Fiction
Swimming Naked
By Stephen G. Eoannou
I stood outside the pool crouched forward, thin arms and skinny legs spread wide to cover as much wall as possible, my pubescent balls dangling like a target, waiting for the water polo game to begin. I don’t know why we swam naked, but I suspect it was a way that Mr. Jackson, [...]
Fiction
Abandon Changes; A “Girl Parts” Story
YARN has the EXCLUSIVE on this story by “Girl Parts” author, John Cusick! Merry merry!
How can you resist a story that begins:
Sam. I’m breaking up with you. We’re through.
- Rei
Fiction
Soda
By Maggy Liu
The sun reared its blinding head early this year, making the students squint and seek shade under the faded umbrellas of the plastic lunch tables. Chemistry worksheets, pencils and pens, erasers and rulers lay scattered while they swear and graph lab results.
A band kid screams, disturbing the peace [...]
Fiction
No Such Thing (YARN’s first flash fiction!)
By Mark Budman
Some people swore that the house was haunted. I didn’t believe them. Some people would swear on the Bible and still lie. What do unbelievers use when they take oath in court? Steven Hawking’s The Grand Design? [...]
Fiction
Elsie and the Wild Boys
By Phoebe North
The summer before he went away to college, Adam spent his days ringing groceries at the Shop Rite on the highway, long hair pulled back into a frizzy pony tail. His nights were spent doing who-knows-what. If you asked Elsie, she’d tell you he spent them with Louis and Evan [...]
Fiction
Re-Read: The Weather
Lourdes’s pick: the first ever short story published on YARN
Originally published on February 13, 2010 “The Weather” is one of the first publications on YARN. Writer Giulia Caterini effortlessly captures the moment when bad news is unavoidable – be it the climatic or familial kind. [...]
Fiction
Re-read In the Spotlight
Shannon’s Pick: Emily Deibel’s compelling short story
Emily Deibel slams her reader in the driver’s seat by her engaging use of the second person. This rare narrative style makes the viewpoint of the main character compelling, heartbreaking, and uncomfortably real [...]
Fiction
Re-Read: Swamp Monster Bonanza
Lourdes’s pick: Michele Tallarita’s short story.
Originally published on March 7, 2011 “Swamp Monster Bonanza” is, as in the words of character Attison, weird in its beauty. I cannot explain in words my fascination with this story. Maybe I am in awe of how people who once ridicule Robin and Attison can suddenly be paying to see them do tricks. Or it could be [...]
Fiction
Re-Read: Skin for Skin and The Engines of Sodom
Shannon’s pick: Jon Papernick
Meghan Cox Gurdon wrote a response piece to the furor arising from her diatribe against violent and mature themes in YA literature, “Darkness Too Visible.” Gurdon’s response primarily backs up [...]
Fiction
The Trader
By Michelle Barker “Beautiful or useful, one or the other,” growled Jimmy to his son. “The rest ain’t worth spit.” Halen Minn had heard those words every day of his life, and as the wooden trading cart rattled along its pot-holed muddy course from their Brinnian village into Hellarsburg, he heard them yet again. It [...]
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