Flash Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, Haruki Murakami, Sheila Heti, and More

A special issue of the newsletter, featuring very short stories from this summer’s series. View in browser | Update your preferences Every summer, from July 4th through Labor Day, we feature a weekly series of online-only Flash Fiction pieces. This year’s collection, which ended with very short stories by Tania James and Tim Parks, began with Etgar Keret’s sly take on the movie we call life. We’ve compiled the stories in this special issue of our newsletter. Flash Fiction “Director’s Cut” “Post-production took a hundred and fourteen years.” By Etgar Keret More Flash Fiction Flash Fiction “Grayness” “It was a job for every person on the planet to put colors where they ought to be.” By Sheila Heti Flash Fiction “Good Boys” “When the boys say something, they mean it. That’s why we like them.” By Honor Levy Flash Fiction “Hospice/ Honeymoon” “Once the word is uttered aloud, there is a seismic shift. You will feel it.” By Joyce Carol Oates Flash Fiction “Tales Told to Tevye” “Rabbi Biegeleisen explained that to summarize Judaism in a single sentence or verse was nonsense.” By David Lehman Flash Fiction “The Kingdom That Failed” “The more sincerely he tried to explain things, the more a fog of insincerity came to hang over everything.” By Haruki Murakami Flash Fiction “Ruth, Frank, and Dario” “It had irritated her, Ruth told the friends, to find herself waiting for Frank to call.” By Lore Segal PAID POST The outrageously fun new romp from “a master of the crime novel" –People The instant best seller. A missing socialite. An over-tanned President and over-sexed First Lady. Huge, hungry pythons. “Hiaasen remains the undefeated, unscored-upon conscience of Florida, maybe of the whole country. I laughed and laughed.” —James Patterson Humor and Puzzles Crossword Today’s Crossword Literary family with a famously misremembered name: fifteen letters. By Kameron Austin Collins Daily Cartoon Monday, September 7th By Jason Adam Katzenstein This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.