It’s here — the shortest night of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere), a good a reason as any to join in the International Short Story Day celebrations across the globe and (re)post a short piece of fiction that first appeared in The Potomac. Charmed “I have a surprise for you,” he whispers, his finger [...]

In the last gallery of The Steins Collect, which recently ended its run at the Metropolitan Museum, is a glass case with books, their own form of art by virtue of both writer and illustrator.  What captures my attention is not the fact that Gertrude Stein employed her inimitable prose style to write a children’s [...]