Short Stories, Sardine Burials and Wishes Coming True by Catherine Czerkawska
This week, my little collection of four short stories was published in eBook form by Hearst Magazines UK. They are one of the few mega magazine publishers not to desert the short story, but to carry on publishing quality short fiction, even when other publications were inexplicably consigning their short stories to the scrap heap. My story The Butterfly Bowl - now in the collection A Quiet Afternoon in the Museum of Torture - was first published by them years ago. Excuse the interruption, but The Butterfly Bowl is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read! - Sue Price. Turns out the form wasn’t dead, but only sleeping. Writers loved it and readers too. (And isn't it wonderful that the Nobel Prize judges have recognised it with Alice Munro's award this year?) Readers especially seem to appreciate the short story in eBook form – long enough to start and finish on a bus or train to work, or last thing at night before sleep. And when beautifully, dens...