Free giveaway of Frog Heart by Joy Deva Baglio along with a copy of the Ploughshares’ Summer 2024 issue in which the story first appeared.

Bryan Hurt’s The Fourth Man puts a spotlight on Alan Bean—the astronaut who walked on the moon yet spent his life in the long shadow of the men who touched the surface first.

When Albert Rasmussen loses his wife, he proposes something unthinkable: that he and his children sleep through the winter.

When her infant daughter’s failing heart leaves her desperate for a miracle, a mother is drawn to a mysterious pond.

Joy Deva Baglio writes with a rare, electric clarity—the kind that makes the familiar feel newly charged and the uncanny feel inevitable.

“Death in the Woods” is a signal junction in Anderson's career and is to my mind one of the finest stories in our language."—Jim Harrison

Sherwood Anderson published a number of novels, short story collections, volumes of poetry, and memoirs during his lifetime, but he is best known for Winesburg, Ohio (1919).

When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house …

Ernest Hemingway explores the casual nature of evil in this bleak short story set in a small town outside of Chicago.

A fleeting glance at a stranger on a train sparks an entire invented life—woven with suspense, empathy, and illusion.

Handcrafted papercuts and archival quality prints from Darin Mount for our upcoming Modernist chapbooks.

Life Without Principle is a timeless reminder to all of us to reconsider what truly constitutes a life well-lived and to seek a path that leads to genuine satisfaction and ethical living.

Glenn Gould favored solitude because he felt that purity was contaminated by the world, by the competition and judgments of the world, and his goal was to preserve that purity.

After seventy years of successful preservation, Lenin’s body is deteriorating faster than the morticians and biochemical scientists can manage.

The seed we plant today shall be the harvest of tomorrow.

Who are the best contemporary short story writers?

“If you want to read a story version of Being John Malkovich transferred to the mind of Mr. Waits, here you go, minus the scheming plot.”—The Florida Review (Online)

May is Short Story Month.

P.D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer in this story from 1973.

A parable of the rise of fascism and how easily people give up their rights.