SHORT STORY REX Feb 2026
SHORT STORY REX Feb 2026 [Remember how last month I wrote about “how it felt hopelessly trivial to be nattering on about short fiction just now”? yeah, i...
SHORT STORY REX Jan 2026
SHORT STORY REX Jan 2026 [Before we begin: it does feel hopelessly trivial to be nattering on about short fiction just now, so let my first recommendation...
SSR YEAR 3
Short Story Rex Year Three Wow, three years of this, huh? I must be almost due for a performance review. But first the short stories: presented to you in...
SUBMITTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL: "The Last Spiderbox"
SUBMITTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL: "The Last Spiderbox", a/k/a THE YEAR IN SELF-PROMO REX with bonus reading material for your perusal December has been and...
SHORT STORY REX Nov 2025
SHORT STORY REX Nov 2025 1. Jonothan Pickering, "Hunigsuge" For those in need of something to tide them over until the next issue of Seize the Press comes...
SHORT STORY REX Oct 2025
SOME PODCAST RECS: 1. “Towards Happy Civilization”, Samanta Schweblin I must confess I slept on Levar Burton Reads kind of hard, because looking back they...
"Enselfening" out now in The Dark
In case you haven’t seen me posting and reposting about it elsewhere, I just thought I’d inform everyone that my story “Enselfening” is up and free to read...
SHORT STORY REX Sept 2025
1. “The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet”, Carolyn Zhao Got sucked in by this one’s sort-of free-associating whimsy, its deceptively naif je-ne-sais-quoi....
SHORT STORY REX Aug 2025
1 “The Things We Should Have Asked the Baby”, Kay Vaindal I feel compelled to say something like "this story speaks to our current moment". To which some...
SHORT STORY REX July 2025
1. “The Night Market”, Erin Brown Thoroughly dug this story in issue 4 of The Skull & Laurel. The fantasy setting, its thatched roofs and castle, marks a...
SHORT STORY REX June 2025
SSR June 2025: the ‘playing the hits’ edition 1. “Slowsand”, Joe Koch “Mr. Schrift comes at me backward through the dirt, which I understand doesn’t make...
SHORT STORY REX May 2025
1 “The Horse Hand”, Zebulon House Sometimes, in the course of one’s journeys, one stops by the side of the road to take a picture. I don’t know, to try and...
SHORT STORY REX April 2025
1. “Avila Beach”, Z.D. Dochterman I managed to go a whole month without recommending a story from Seize the Press, which is like almost unheard of for me, so...
SHORT STORY REX March 2025
for reasons that will become apparent i should go ahead and point out that all opinions expressed herein are exclusively my own haha 1. “sharp house”, Samir...
SHORT STORY REX Feb 2025
SHORT STORY REX Feb 2025 1. “Green”, Ivy Grimes I have an unending fascination with the fiction of Ivy Grimes in pretty much all of its aspects, but one in...
SHORT STORY REX January 2025
SHORT STORY REX January 2025 1. “The Dancer’s Dozen”, R.L. Summerling A little bit of deja vu here, as last January this newsletter began “I mean to continue...
"The Skullhole Panic" now free to read
Hello everyone! In case you missed the announcement: GAMUT MAGAZINE is now FREE for anyone who would like to read these amazing stories. Our business may...
SHORT STORY REX Year Two in Review 2024
YEAR TWO IN REVIEW: i am a poet and didnt know it So last year i did a year-end roundup of all the stuff I’d recommended in the newsletter, and I figured I’d...
SHORT STORY REX Dec 2024
1. “The Giraffe”, Charles O. Smith Here's one of those fables that has not only sea monsters and magical potions but also op-eds and drag nights and old...
(two) year(s ago) in review
(two) year(s ago) in review (or: RIP cohost) back when it was first announced or made official that Twitter was being bought by Elon Musk, a lot of people...