Palo Alto Weekly 39th Annual Short Story ContestYoung Adult Honorable Mention Fire by Amanda Kim A rustle caught his ear and Mika’s hand shot to his pistol, holstered under his belt like always. He ...

Travelers can find all kinds of goodies in airport vending machines – candy, soda, cosmetics, electronics. But in Oregon, only at Eugene’s Mahlon Sweet Field can an airport vending machine dispense a ...

Death Note recently returned with a new sequel chapter from the original creators, and Viz Media has now made this sequel and some special new short stories from the series available through their ...

You don’t read short stories. Well, you probably don’t – statistically speaking. Whenever I speak to friends, too, they’re always reading novels or nonfiction. They look at me with curiosity and ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...