A STORY YOU LOVE
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THE MONTHLY FIVE
Life is short.
Read something extraordinary.
Five stories. One lovely month.
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A small escape✦A remarkable voice✦A story that stays✦Time well spent
LEAVE A LITTLE ROOM FOR SERENDIPITY
Story Roulette.
Not sure what you’re in the mood for? Let a little chance choose your next great escape.
Preparing the wheel…
What’s on the wheel?
Historical portraits and artistic interpretations. Hand-tinted colors are interpretive, not a record of the originals.
Virginia Woolf: George Charles Beresford, 1902, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain). Victor Hugo: Étienne Carjat, 1876, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
Edith Wharton: The World’s Work, 1905, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain in the United States). Artistic AI colorization, with her gaze turned toward the viewer.
Katherine Mansfield portrait: Archives New Zealand, ABKH W4437 NF 316, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Our artistic AI colorization and resized portrait are shared under the same license. Download the portrait. This license applies to this portrait, not the whole site.
THE COMPLETE ASSORTMENT
Explore the stacks
Search by title, author, theme, or mood.
Make time for something wonderful.
Reading estimates use 200–250 words per minute. Collection times cover all the stories together; supplements are excluded.
Edition links open Amazon. Every entry has a three-word summary and a question to savor. Every entry includes a quotation and an estimated reading time.
A PLACE AT THE EDITOR’S TABLE
What should we read next?
Tell us a favorite short story you’d love to see in a Short Shot edition.
Your favorite story.
Our next discovery?
Share a favorite or suggest a title for the collection. Your ideas can help shape our free story for next month and future editions.
No account needed. Just a good story.
Your suggestion goes privately to our editorial desk. It may help shape the collection; publication depends on edition availability and editorial review.
A READING RITUAL, NOT A READING CHORE
Make a little occasion of it.
Follow your mood.
Something wicked, something wistful,
or something unexpectedly warm.
Claim a quiet moment.
A cup of coffee. A comfortable chair.
Your phone, somewhere else.
Let it linger.
The last page is only the beginning
of what a good story leaves behind.